The following entries are tagged with “uploads”:
We’ve spent the last few weeks working on a new Rails app for a film and photography site and, as you might expect from my recent posts, we’re using Paperclip to handle file uploads.
Without any more effort than a script/install of Paperclip we get thumbnailing of images and PDFs, but what about thumbnailing the video files that will be uploaded to the site? Enter FFmpeg.
It is one of life’s strange coincidences that in the week where Rack middleware was brought firmly into the spotlight in Railsland thanks to the introduction of Metal and the continuing transition of Rails to a Rack application that I finally had a need to write some middleware of my own. Up until now I’ve had a rough understanding of how Rack works and how middleware can used to provide customised processing in a web request but I haven’t actually needed to use it for anything.
For well over a year now attachment_fu has been my plugin of choice for adding file uploads to our Rails applications, but recently my fellow WebFellas have been raving about Paperclip from the clever guys at thoughtbot. As I’ve just started yet another new project I figured it was time to take Paperclip for a spin.
