"No such file or directory - /public/settings.xml" in Rails when the file is there

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As you can see, the file is there. I made sure to switch rights to that file to everyone - anythiig I am missing that is obvious?

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Ruby 1.8.7 Rails 3.0.3

What's throwing that error, can you show us some code? – vee Aug 18 '13 at 00:35 — vee, Aug 18 '13 at 00:35

PericlesTheo · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-18T00:49:53.830

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You shouldn't be using / before public, as it is searching for public directory in root , so for example, if you wanted to remove the file from a terminal you would say:

rm public/settings.xml

edited Aug 18 '13 at 00:49

answered Aug 18 '13 at 00:43

PericlesTheo

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '13 at 01:03

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Rails serves up files in the public directory from the root of the application. So instead of using /public/settings.xml as the path in the browser, you should just use /settings.xml

answered Aug 18 '13 at 01:03

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"No such file or directory - /public/settings.xml" in Rails when the file is there

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