# Large file upload

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 19, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542 "2008-01-19T08:27:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542/1 "2008-01-19T08:27:17Z")

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I’ve used attachment\_fu with great success, but now I am working on a  
project that requires an administrative user to upload very large files.  
Anywhere from 200 MB to 1 gig…maybe even more (video files).

At this point it is not saving correctly and it is super slow.

Is there a better way to do this? Is this just a really bad idea?  
Should I just have them upload it through ftp?

would love to hear some opinions.

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542/2 "2008-01-19T14:04:30Z")

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Great question. I too would like to know a good way to handle this.

Is there an existing flash component (or java applet) that could be  
used  
on a web page to do the uploading (ftp re http) …and show a nice  
percent complete status?

You wouldn’t want the upload to quit at half of the 200 MB because the  
user accidentally did a browser “back”, so any tool would have to have  
some javascript to help stop from moving from that page.

-Jim

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542/3 "2008-01-20T02:45:37Z")

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Talk about timing, I just stumbled onto an article in “Web Designer”  
Magazine (from the UK) issue 139, page 44 where Simon Bailey has a  
tutorial on creating a Flex based Flash File Upload tool. It has  
features like percent complete and file size limits for uploading.

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-Jim

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/large-file-upload/126542/4 "2008-01-25T14:03:48Z")

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