Showing images with carrierwave in rails 3.1 in a private store folder

Question

I have a rails 3.1 app and I am adding carrierwave to store images. But I want to store those images outside the public folde,r because they should only be accessible when u

Answer 1

:disposition => 'inline' will make your images display in the browser instead of popping up the download dialog.

def show
  send_file "#{Rails.root}/imagenes_expedientes/avatar.jpg", :disposition => 'inline', :type=>"application/jpg", :x_sendfile=>true
end

Depending on the images sizes and the number of users you might want to move this action to a metal app, or a separate so as to not block the server.