# image uploading **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [November 6, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107 "2007-11-06T04:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shybe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/1 "2007-11-06T04:29:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beate\_Paland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@Beate\_Paland](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Beate_Paland)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/2 "2007-11-06T13:05:10Z")
Hi, ---
**Author:** ![fredistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@fredistic](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/fredistic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/3 "2007-11-06T13:12:39Z")
Here is some stuff on attachment\_fu: [http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu](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 ---
**Author:** ![Gianluca\_Tessarolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gianluca\_Tessarolo](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Gianluca_Tessarolo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/4 "2007-11-06T13:57:07Z")
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. > > \> Try uploadcolumn plugin ([http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/](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 ! ---
**Author:** ![Nasir\_Jamal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Nasir\_Jamal](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Nasir_Jamal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/5 "2007-11-06T14:18:53Z")
I am using acts\_as\_attachment plugin and its working great. Check it out at [http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley](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 > **[How to get acts\_as\_attachement plugin working on mac osx](https://nasir.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/how-to-get-file_column-plugin-working-on-mac-osx/)** > > If you want to use acts as attachement for image upload/manipulation as well then first you need to install imagemagick (and its dependencies) and RMagick. Before installing imagemagick you also ne… since we need some other stuff before using it. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_De\_Berdt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@Peter\_De\_Berdt](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Peter_De_Berdt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/6 "2007-11-06T16:18:06Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Nasir\_Jamal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Nasir\_Jamal](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Nasir_Jamal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/image-uploading/20107/7 "2007-11-07T11:33:05Z")
thannx peter, I will check that