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Damian Sieczkowski
9,730 PointsWhat's the best approach for receiving photos from a mobile client to a Rails backend?
I'm working on the backend for a iOS application and a few of the models are meant to contain photos - how do I handle that?
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Daniel Reedy
25,284 PointsUltimately it depends on where you want to store your photos. I'd venture to say that the most common scenario is storing the photos in the cloud somewhere (e.g. AWS S3). If that is the case then you'd use the AWS Mobile SDK to upload the image, save the URL, and then pass that information to your Rails backend.
If you want to store the file using the Rails backend, either as a BLOB in the database or on the local file system then you'd need to send the data of the image through an HTTP call. I've not personally verified the code in this post, but it might help you get started: https://zunostudios.com/blog/development/143-how-to-upload-a-photo-using-nsurlconnection
Damian Sieczkowski
9,730 PointsDamian Sieczkowski
9,730 PointsAwesome, thanks. That's very insightful.
Damian Sieczkowski
9,730 PointsDamian Sieczkowski
9,730 PointsIf you have time, would you be able to share your thoughts on this question as well ==> https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/authorization-for-rails-api ?