Rails - May 2006 - Uploading module in rails

PodServe (http://www.pod-serve.com) is written using ruby on rails.  We 
host audio and movie files for users, but first they have to upload the 
files to our servers.  Most of our users are non-technical so ftp is not 
an option - instead they use a browser based http upload.

We have lots of of problems including (according to our engineer): 
"Upload large files thought http always was a problematic feature: we 
have browser timeouts, server timeouts, network connection problems - a 
lot of things can affect the upload."

I use DropSend and they don''t have any of the issues I face from our
own
application.  I asked our programmers why (according to our programmer): 
"they are not using rails for the files upload. That''s something
I''ve
discussed with alexl / kevin - Maybe we should do the upload module 
using perl or php, so we can get a visual statusbar with connection 
information and upload complete %."

Is this true?  Check out this screenshot: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexmuse/139783365/
Why can''t we do something like that in rails?  Any help, thoughts,
would
be appreciated.

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Alexander Muse wrote:

After seeing this our programmers stated: "rails will be able to do 
that, but at this time is not a good idea to play with the visual 
uploading -- it''s pretty alpha."

> PodServe (http://www.pod-serve.com) is written using ruby on rails.  We 
> host audio and movie files for users, but first they have to upload the 
> files to our servers.  Most of our users are non-technical so ftp is not 
> an option - instead they use a browser based http upload.
> 
> We have lots of of problems including (according to our engineer): 
> "Upload large files thought http always was a problematic feature: we 
> have browser timeouts, server timeouts, network connection problems - a 
> lot of things can affect the upload."
> 
> I use DropSend and they don''t have any of the issues I face from
our own
> application.  I asked our programmers why (according to our programmer): 
> "they are not using rails for the files upload. That''s
something I''ve
> discussed with alexl / kevin - Maybe we should do the upload module 
> using perl or php, so we can get a visual statusbar with connection 
> information and upload complete %."
> 
> Is this true?  Check out this screenshot: 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexmuse/139783365/
> Why can''t we do something like that in rails?  Any help, thoughts,
would
> be appreciated.

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