In Rails how to link to text file

humphrys · October 15th, 2007, 11:48 AM

I'm trying to figure a way to create a link to a word file or
a pdf. When I click on the link it would be fine if the file
opened up in it's own window outside of the browser. I haven't
found any examples of this.

ciderpunx · October 16th, 2007, 09:22 AM

Put my_document.pdf into the public/resource directory.

In your template do:

Code:

<%= link_to 'My Document', '/resource/my_document.pdf' -%>

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