http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:27:41 GMT DZone Snippets: icons code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2560 This code uses acts_as_attachment (that's the attachment.filename) but you can of course replace it with anything. <br />It gets the file extension then looks up that extension in a dir full of files named extension.png <br />if none is found, unknown.png is used <br /> <br /> <br /><code> <br /><% <br />extension = File.extname(attachment.filename).gsub(/\./, "") <br /># get a file icon <br />icon_path = nil <br />Dir.entries("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/filetypes").each do |entry| <br /> entry_extension = File.extname(entry) <br /> if entry.gsub(entry_extension, "") === extension <br /> icon_path = "/images/filetypes/" + entry <br /> break <br /> end <br />end <br />icon_path = "/images/filetypes/unknown.png" if icon_path.nil? <br /> %> <br /><%= image_tag icon_path %> <br /><span class="attachment_name"><%= attachment.filename %></span><br /> <br /></code> Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:32:28 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2560 aptiva (Fjölnir �sgeirsson)