I really like Paperclip. It''s a great plugin, and Ryan Bates (of
railscasts fame) has a great screencast on how to use it:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip
It''ll do just about anything. In all the cases I''ve used it,
it''s
"tied" to a model. For example, one place I use it is to upload PDF
documents for inventory on our company''s website. The model for said
inventory has a series of Paperclip fields. This allows my non-
technical people to update the database, and upload new manuals, all
through an updater application I wrote for them to do it all with.
Alternatively, there''s attachment_fu, which also works well. The main
difference (as far as I can tell, somebody feel free to correct me if
I''m wrong) is that attachment_fu requires its own model for tracking
files, whereas Paperclip does not.
So if you know you''ll only have X file attachments on a model, go
Paperclip. If you want as many attachments as possible for a model
and don''t care about dealing with a separate model for those
attachments, go attachment_fu.
On Jul 31, 12:17 pm, Gabriel Bianconi
<bianconi.gabr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I''m new with Rails and I''ve been searching for a way to
upload files
> using Rails. I''ve only found plug-ins and tutorials for images.
>
> Do you know any website/plu-ing/etc that can help me with non-image
> file uploads?
>
> Thanks,
> Gabriel.