How to upload a video in ruby on rails

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Can any one halp? how to upload a video in ruby on rails (ruby 1.8.7 and rails-2.3.8)

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Hi Saritha,

Checkout this http://www.pandastream.com/docs/.

regards,

Loganathan ViewMe

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Do you want to upload a video from your clients browser to your RoR instance or do you want to upload a video from your RoR instance to another server?

Depending on your plans there are different answers to your question…

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i want to upload a video to save in my database (mysql) and play it later time when i was click on the play button.

can any one post the code using panda how to upload a video clip.

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Checkout any of these below for video upload.

http://openrails.blogspot.in/2011/03/upload-videos-in-rails-using-floplayer.html

https://rubygems.org/gems/paperclip-ffmpeg

http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip

regards, Loganathan ViewMe

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I've never used Panda, but I've built an app to upload and encode videos.

I used rails 2.3.x, the Paperclip gem, and ffmpeg, and it's all very straight-forward.

I have since upgraded to rails 3, upload straight to Amazon, and encode with Zencoder (http://zencoder.com/)

My source is available at: https://github.com/kwiest/Teacher-Ducklings

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You usually upload a video by saving an instance of the video on disk (or on s3 for example), and saving a reference on the database so that you can retrieve it later. It's easier to use existing gems for this, like paperclip[1] or carrierwave[2].

Unfortunately, I don't think carrierwave is available for Rails 2.3.x, but feel free to check it out anyway. Their documentation should also answer your questions.

[1] GitHub - thoughtbot/paperclip: Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord [2] https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave