# File\_Column Development Dead?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990 "2006-05-09T08:52:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990/1 "2006-05-09T08:52:46Z")

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I’m curious if anyone knows if development on the file\_column plug in is  
continuing? I’ve seen some SVN commits from awhile back but no binary  
releases.

Did Sebastian speak at Canada on Rails? Anyone catch that?

What is the future of file\_column?

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990/2 "2006-05-09T18:48:21Z")

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> I’m curious if anyone knows if development on the file\_column plug in is  
> continuing? I’ve seen some SVN commits from awhile back but no binary  
> releases.

FileColumn isn’t dead. It’s just not being actively improved. Bug  
fixes should still be happening…

-Kyle

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990/3 "2006-05-09T19:03:50Z")

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Kyle M. wrote:

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> Rails mailing list  
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> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

Any idea how stable the svn commits are? Seem to be quite a few  
improvements on the last release.

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-column-development-dead/59990/4 "2006-05-09T19:13:08Z")

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Thanks for the heads up.

As I know you’ve worked on the code in the past, do you know if the  
following is possible:

I use url\_for\_image\_column to create thumbnail views for my image files.  
This works great for JPGs and GIFs but for a file like a TIFF,  
file\_column  
dutifully creates a thumbnail but in TIFF format (since the original was  
a  
TIFF). Since most browsers don’t display TIFFs, this is not what I’m  
looking  
for.

Do you know if it is possible to specify the file output type for the  
Rmagick transformation in the current codebase?

Cheers,  
Hunter

> > releases.  
> > FileColumn isn’t dead. It’s just not being actively improved.
> 
> > Bug  
> > fixes should still be happening…

-Kyle