# Image uploading **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 6, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336 "2007-11-06T05:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/1 "2007-11-06T05:29:38Z")
I’m Building an application where i need users to be able to upload an image with blog posts, and in another section I need the user to upload multiple images. > From what I’ve read “attachment\_fu” is the way to go, > but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down. > I’m New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and > views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/2 "2007-11-06T14:05:48Z")
Hi, 2007/11/6, shybe [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > From what I’ve read “attachment\_fu” is the way to go, > > but there are no tutorials for it, the main tutorial page is down. > > I’m New to ROR, and pretty much have a grip on controllers, models and > > views, but the image uploading thing is greek to me. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? have a look at [http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/](http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/). It works pretty well and is documented. HTH, Beate ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/3 "2007-11-06T14:13:26Z")
Here is some stuff on attachment\_fu: [http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu](http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu) I’ve decided that the \_fu part stands for File Upload and probably not Kung Fu or FuBar. If you search this newsgroup for attachment\_fu you’ll see lots of people have questions about it. There is something that is not easy. I’m running into trouble with the simple migration it requires. And I can’t fix it and this group is no help (yet). fredistic ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/4 "2007-11-06T15:03:43Z")
shybe ha scritto: > Thanks in advance. > > > Try uploadcolumn plugin ([http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/](http://uploadcolumn.rubyforge.org/)) it works very well (it’s very simple and powerful, I use it in production and it solved me a big problem I had: mass loading of images from a legacy db…) Good luck ! ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/5 "2007-11-06T17:19:00Z")
On 06 Nov 2007, at 15:18, nas wrote: > I am using acts\_as\_attachment plugin and its working great. > > Check it out at [http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley](http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley) or if you want > to check it thoroughly then signup first on [www.sphred.com](http://www.sphred.com) and then > try to upload/delete/update your image after logging in > > I have also written a little tutorial on how to use it > [How to get acts\_as\_attachement plugin working on mac osx – Nasir Jamal](http://nasir.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/how-to-get-file_column-plugin-) > working-on-mac-osx/ > since we need some other stuff before using it. attachment\_fu is the successor of acts\_as\_attachment and should be used instead of it. a\_a\_a has serious downsides, especially when it comes to loading files in memory instead of using tempfile and being tied to the very memory hungry rmagick. Attachment\_fu’s code is a lot cleaner too. I’m still using a\_a\_a in some of our old apps (i had to hack it, so i need to reimplement my changes as they are very specific for our needs), but i plan to switch all of them over to attachment\_fu, possibly changing the processor to imagescience if it’s just thumbnailing that’s involved. Best regards Peter De Berdt ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/6 "2007-11-06T15:19:30Z")
I am using acts\_as\_attachment plugin and its working great. Check it out at [http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley](http://sphred.com/profile/3-Mel-Frogley) or if you want to check it thoroughly then signup first on [www.sphred.com](http://www.sphred.com) and then try to upload/delete/update your image after logging in I have also written a little tutorial on how to use it > **[How to get acts\_as\_attachement plugin working on mac osx](https://nasir.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/how-to-get-file_column-plugin-working-on-mac-osx/)** > > If you want to use acts as attachement for image upload/manipulation as well then first you need to install imagemagick (and its dependencies) and RMagick. Before installing imagemagick you also ne… since we need some other stuff before using it. ---
**Author:** ![shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@shybe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shybe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-uploading/119336/7 "2007-11-07T12:33:33Z")
thannx peter, I will check that