DownloadLinkHelper - Ruby on Rails Plugin

Synopsis

DownloadLinkHelper is a small plugin for Ruby on Rails that adds a new download_link_tag that can be called from within your views. It then generates the link along with the file-size in parenthesis.

Usage

<%= download_link_tag 'Jingle', 'jingle.ogg' %>

renders to

<a href="downloads/jingle.ogg">Jingle</a> (159.33 KB)

Installation

The easiest and most Rails-like installation is to call the following from the root of your Rails application:

$ ./script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/dl-link-helper/trunk

and you are ready to go.

Alternatively it is also possible to download either the .tar.gz or .zip file and extract it in RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/.
You also have to manually create the downloads directory in RAILS_ROOT/public, something that is done automatically using the ./script/plugin way.

Project website

The RubyForge project website can be found here.

Copyright notice

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the MIT license. Please refer to the LICENSE file provided with this software.

Contact

christian.luginbuehl@pimprecords.com