Connector for RubyOnRails

[ZAJDAN]

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# each action in Rails goes through controller, so we have to direct the JS to the Rails controller
# in your JS code direct script to your controller/method
# script: 'http://myweb.net/yourController/yourMethod',
# has been tested in Ruby on Rails 5.2.3 (Ruby 2.3.3)
# 3.7.2019
# Zdenek Chládek
# ZAJDAN 
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  def filetree
      if params.include?(:dir)
	root = "/your/root_path"
	dir = (params[:dir])

        @result = "<ul class=\"jqueryFileTree\" style=\"display: none;\">"
		path = root + "/" + dir 

		# chdir() to user requested dir (root + "/" + dir) 
		Dir.chdir(File.expand_path(path).untaint);
		
		# check that our base path still begins with root path
		if Dir.pwd[0,root.length] == root then
			#loop through all directories
			Dir.glob("*") {
				|x|
				if not File.directory?(x.untaint) then next end 
				@result.concat("<li class=\"directory collapsed\"><a href=\"#\" rel=\"#{dir}#{x}/\">#{x}</a></li>")
			}

			#loop through all files
			Dir.glob("*") {
				|x|
				if not File.file?(x.untaint) then next end 
				ext = File.extname(x)[1..-1]
				@result.concat("<li class=\"file ext_#{ext}\"><a href=\"#\" rel=\"#{dir}#{x}\">#{x}</a></li>")
			}
			@result.concat("</ul>")
			
			respond_to do |format|
			    format.html { render html: @result.html_safe }
			end #respond_to
	  end#end of IF
      end#end of IF
  end#end of method

RoR_filetree_controller.rb.zip