How to upload a file

Rails
#1

Hello all,

i am trying to upload a file through Ruby on Rails since last week.
Could anyone please guide me regarding a simple upload process. Or
guide me to a ‘working’ example/tutorial of uploading.

Waiting curiously for a respons,

Regards,

pharrukh.

#2

the super simple version:
in your view place a form:

<% form_tag(…insert your path etc…), { :multipart => true }) do %>
File to Upload<%= file_field_tag “file” %>
<%= submit_tag(“upload”) %>
<% end %>

then you’ll get this file in your action as params[:file] and can save
it like this:

File.open("#{file_location}/new_file_name.xxx", ‘wb’) { |f|
f.write(params[:file].read) }

#3

On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:59 AM, pharrukh. wrote:

pharrukh.

The important bit that’s easy to forget is the :multipart=>true

==> in your view new.rhtml <==

<% form_for(:something, @something, :url => somethings_path, :html =>
{ :multipart => true }) do |f| -%>

Something File:
<%= f.file_field 'data' %>

<%= submit_tag “Submit”, :name => nil %>
<% end %>

==> in the SomethingController#create action <==

 data = params[:something].delete('data') #

HashWithIndifferentAccess still needs the actual key type to .delete

 params[:dump] = "data=#{data.inspect}"#;

filename=#{data.original_filename}; content_type=#{data.content_type}"

 if data.blank?
   flash[:error] = "No something file selected for upload"
   redirect_to :action => 'new' and return
 end
 content = data.read
 if content.blank?
   flash[:error] = "Selected something file was empty"
   redirect_to :action => 'new' and return
 end

That should get you going.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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