How do I serve a binary file through rack?

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Published on 2010-05-06T16:21:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 16:28 UTC
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I think I'm being a bit silly here, but I keep getting errors complaining about the SERVER_NAME key missing from the env hash, and I can't find any substantial documentation on Rack::SendFile..

so- how do I serve up files?

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