image uploading

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I'm Building an application where i need users to be able to upload an image with blog posts, and in another section I need the user to upload multiple images.

From what I've read "attachment_fu" is the way to go,

but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down. I'm New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

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Here is some stuff on attachment_fu: http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu

I've decided that the _fu part stands for File Upload and probably not Kung Fu or FuBar.

If you search this newsgroup for attachment_fu you'll see lots of people have questions about it. There is something that is not easy. I'm running into trouble with the simple migration it requires.

And I can't fix it and this group is no help (yet).

fredistic

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shybe ha scritto:

I'm Building an application where i need users to be able to upload an image with blog posts, and in another section I need the user to upload multiple images.

>From what I've read "attachment_fu" is the way to go, but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down. I'm New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

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Try uploadcolumn plugin (http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/) it works very well (it's very simple and powerful, I use it in production and it solved me a big problem I had: mass loading of images from a legacy db...)

Good luck !

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I am using acts_as_attachment plugin and its working great.

Check it out at http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley or if you want to check it thoroughly then signup first on www.sphred.com and then try to upload/delete/update your image after logging in

I have also written a little tutorial on how to use it

since we need some other stuff before using it.

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attachment_fu is the successor of acts_as_attachment and should be used instead of it. a_a_a has serious downsides, especially when it comes to loading files in memory instead of using tempfile and being tied to the very memory hungry rmagick. Attachment_fu’s code is a lot cleaner too. I’m still using a_a_a in some of our old apps (i had to hack it, so i need to reimplement my changes as they are very specific for our needs), but i plan to switch all of them over to attachment_fu, possibly changing the processor to imagescience if it’s just thumbnailing that’s involved.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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thannx peter, I will check that