This is a fork of Adam Cooke's send_file_with_range
gem with added support for Rails 5.1 courtesy of Metalels and support for a buffer size option courtesy of me.
Rails includes a method called send_file
which allows you to send a file from
your Rails app to a browser. Some files, however, require that data can be
requested in partial chunks with the client providing a range of bytes to be
returned from the file. This is particularily previlent when streaming video
over HTTP.
For example, if you have a video which you want to embed, you need to be able to return the video file in sections to the browser to allow users to skip through the video without downloading the whole file.
This little gem just extends Rails' send_file
method to support this.
gem 'send_file_with_range'
To use this, you just need to pass the range: true
option to a normal
send_file
call.
class VideoController < ApplicationController
def play
path_to_video = Rails.root.join('data', 'some-video.mp4')
send_file path_to_video, range: true, disposition: 'inline', type: 'video/mp4'
end
end
An optional buffer_size
option can be passed which will prevent the server from crashing on large files by only reading the requested range bytes.
send_file_with_range @medium.path, type: 'video/mp4',
disposition: 'inline',
range: true,
buffer_size: 512_000 # Send around 512kib