I am using Ruby on Rails and have a form that gets information from user input. I then want to take the user input and write it to a text file on the server side. I hope to save the file in somewhere such as /public/UserInput.txt.
Is there a way to use Ruby on Rails to do this? Or do I need a different language to do this such as PHP? In either case can anyone give me an example of how this is to be done?
Thanks in advance.
Update The code I am trying that is not giving me a text file is:
after_save :create_file
def create_file
parameter_file = File.new('C:\\parameter_file.txt', "w")
parameter_file.puts(:parameter)
end
This isn't really a rails specific problem. It can be tackled in plain ruby.
path = "/some/file/path.txt"
content = "data from the form"
File.open(path, "w+") do |f|
f.write(content)
end
where target
is where you want the file to go, and content
is whatever data you're extracting from the form.