Scaling ActiveStorage "Immediate" Variants

[fastjames (Jim Kane)]

Hello Tom, I think I ran into a similar case last year and I decided to handle it by exposing the hidden state of “currently being processed”:

Handling in-progress ActiveStorage variants

Hello all, I am working on a specific use case with ActiveStorage and I want to be sure I’m not missing an obvious easy way to do it. I am working on a rails application that uses ActiveStorage for attachments / variants. The application needs to accept pretty large images (e.g. 250mb+ JPEGs), and the app has a page that display thumbnails of uploaded images. When a user uploads an image, they are redirected back to that thumbnail listing page. I have specified preprocessed: true on the thumb v…

I am very much in favor of improving the UX in this area, as this problem definitely isn’t going away.