using :binary columns in models

I am creating little personal flags for each user and since they are small I think it would be best to store them as a blob (:binary), but I can' find anything that i understand.

Can anyone point me at a tutorial on handling images in rails?

Yes , You can simply save the image in the database. Add a column in a table having type BLOB.

in comtroller take a object of the table let us say Image

table = Image.new table.image = "image" table.save()

Thanks Ekta

Thanks.