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Ruby

Posted by Joseph Mokenela
Joseph Mokenela
3,101 Points

Saving images to the database and displaying on the page

I am still a newbie to Ruby on Rails, I am developing an application where the user needs to upload and saves it. The application needs to be able to store that image in the database and later displays it on the webpage to the user.

How do I solve this in Rails?

Kind Regards,

5 Answers

Naomi Freeman
STAFF
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If you want to use a gem in rails, you can use paperclip :)

See the "Uploading files" module. Know that it is in rails 3, but the pre-paperclip installation information is valuable http://teamtreehouse.com/library/advanced-social-features-in-ruby-on-rails

The updated paperclip information can be found with the gem's github page: https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip

Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points
Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points

if you want to build it in ruby look at Sinatra, datamapper and SQLiteManager

Joseph Mokenela
Joseph Mokenela
3,101 Points
Joseph Mokenela
Joseph Mokenela
3,101 Points

Thanks for your response Marcus, I will check them out.

Joseph Mokenela
Joseph Mokenela
3,101 Points
Joseph Mokenela
Joseph Mokenela
3,101 Points

Thanks Naomi, that was helpful!