Static content location

Rails
1

I have some staic content (pdf files) that I want to link to.

I have created a /pdfs folder below public and it works fine.

Can I link to a folder somewhere else as every time I update the app I
have to be careful not to wipe out all the pdfs as all I do is replace
the whole application directory tree…

Thanks
G

2

rsync is your friend. Check it out with man rsync.

That is…assuming you’re sane and using some form of UNIX based
machine. << kidding please don’t flame me :slight_smile:

3

On 2007-06-26, at 20:58 , giorgio wrote:

Can I link to a folder somewhere else as every time I update the app I
have to be careful not to wipe out all the pdfs as all I do is replace
the whole application directory tree…

You could just use a symlink:

app in ~/myapp
pdfs in ~/static/pdfs

ln -s ~/static/pdfs ~/myapp/public/pdfs

You could also start updating your app via svn, set svn:ignore on the
pdfs dir and be happy.

One assumes you’re on unix, the other assumes you’re using subversion
(which you can do on windows too).

4

Afraid customers server is Windows…

Not using svn … not sure if that would help… surely svn would be my
source control repository… what has that got to do with the customers
server? How would I update their server using svn? I dont even have a
connection to it!

Maybe I am missing something. When I looked at subversion it was
remarkably unfriendly… is there a good set of instructions somewhere?

Cheers
G

5

giorgio wrote:

I find the guide book that comes with TortoiseSVN quite friendly. Just
search up the TortoiseSVN project - it’s linked from there.
Hope this helps.

Cheers
G

Cheers,
Mohit.
6/27/2007 | 10:58 AM.