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How do you store and retrieve .obj and .gtlf files with Ruby on Rails's Active Storage?

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up vote 0 down vote favorite I'm trying to build a ruby on rails content management site for Augmented reality experiences. I'm using Aframe (aframe.io) to preview AR experiences in the browser before serving the associated files to the iOS & Andorid app via an API. I'm really struggling to get the .OBJ files and .GTLF files to upload into active storage and still maintain the correct texturing when retrieving them. Has anyone had any experience using Aframe with ruby on rails before? ruby-on-rails ruby aframe share | improve this question asked Nov 19 at 11:44 Alexander 13 5 ...

Was 'Nance' used as a generic way to refer to someone's wife in the 19th century?

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up vote 3 down vote favorite In the Adventures of Tom Sawyer novel (chapter XXVI) we can read the following: “You don’t know me. Least you don’t know all about that thing. ’Tain’t robbery altogether—it’s revenge !” and a wicked light flamed in his eyes. “I’ll need your help in it. When it’s finished—then Texas. Go home to your Nance and your kids, and stand by till you hear from me.” In the Spanish translation the "go home to your Nance" part is translated as something closer to "go home with your wife", and we are trying to understand why. One of the reasons I thought about is that that maybe 'Nancy' was not the real name of the character's wife, but rather a generic way to refer to someone's wife, because the speaker says "you don't know me", why would he know the other ch...