Comments on: File browser for Ruby on Rails

By: Rogerio Ferreira

Rogerio Ferreira — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:16:21 +0000

I think someone has implemented drag and drop:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/filetree

By: Harm

Harm — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:18:25 +0000

Excellent! I was beginning to wonder why it was so hard to find anything.

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:56:34 +0000

There is some way to use drag and drop in Jquery File Tree?

Not as far as i last checked. But you can easily expand on it to include the functionality.

By: Rogerio Ferreira

Rogerio Ferreira — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:22:00 +0000

There is some way to use drag and drop in Jquery File Tree?

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:25:31 +0000

Hi TB,

Try the below and let me know if that works.
Create a file called test.rb anywhere on your drive.

add this code in it:
require ‘iconv’

Dir.entries(”./”).each do |file|
if Wx::PLATFORM == ‘WXMSW’
file = Iconv.conv(’CP1252′,’UTF-8′, file)
end
puts file
end

then either double click the file to run it, or call the file through command line.
It will output all file names in that same directory.

try to put few files with umlauts in their names and see what it outputs.

Let me know how you go, this seems to be one of many encoding issues on different platforms.

By: TB

TB — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:02:24 +0000

Cool stuff!

I got it to work in minutes - but trying to name my files with german umlauts, the “No route matches” Error ocurred.

The charset is set to UTF-8 - so what can I do in order to let it work with the german Umlauts (for example one filename is ‘übersicht.pdf’ ?

Thanks in advance.

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:46:05 +0000

Hey tim, sure you can.

If you open file app/controllers/jqueryfiletree_controller.rb

At line 5, you will see the fileTree is pointed at the public folder, you can change that to any folder you wish to point at.

Let me know if you need any help with that.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:58:02 +0000

Is there anyway to get “out” of the public folder?

Thanks in advance.

By: CK

CK — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:17:09 +0000

AWESOME connector. It solved one of my biggest problems, cannot thank you enough!!!!
I have been looking for a file browser for rails it’s been ages, can’t believe it’s the only one I found.
Well done for posting this, works great

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:59:48 +0000

Tyler,
try to see if :
1. the javascript is pointing to the right folder
2. the javascript .ready function is firing.

Try to add an alert right after
$(document).ready( function() {
alert(”yup I am ready”);

3. If you are still having this issue, send me a sample app and i will check it out and fix it for you.