# Photo selling application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/photo-selling-application/118974>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 1, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/photo-selling-application/118974 "2007-11-01T21:27:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nelson)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/photo-selling-application/118974/1 "2007-11-01T21:27:48Z")

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Hi all,  
i’m doing my first ruby on rails work. I have to build a photo  
selling site. A photographer login, upload his photos and sells it.  
the photo will be protected in some particular way (i will use tags  
for this task).

My first problem is file upload. I want to let the user to be able to  
upload more photo at once (100-200). I see active upload, but it will  
upload many attachments to a model. My model is a photo, not a generic  
attachment. There is a solution other than active upload that i can  
use for my task?

thanks in advance,  
nelson

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**Author:** ![nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nelson)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/photo-selling-application/118974/2 "2007-11-01T21:34:14Z")

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> i’m doing my first ruby on rails work. I have to build a photo  
> selling site. A photographer login, upload his photos and sells it.  
> the photo will be protected in some particular way (i will use tags  
> for this task).
> 
> My first problem is file upload. I want to let the user to be able to  
> upload more photo at once (100-200). I see active upload, but it will  
> upload many attachments to a model. My model is a photo, not a generic  
> attachment. There is a solution other than active upload that i can  
> use for my task?

this may be useful…

[http://swfupload.mammon.se/](http://swfupload.mammon.se/)

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**Author:** ![nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@nelson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nelson)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/photo-selling-application/118974/3 "2007-11-02T04:49:10Z")

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Philip H. wrote:

> > 
> 
> this may be useful…
> 
> [http://swfupload.mammon.se/](http://swfupload.mammon.se/)

Actually, just from a design perspective (and my using of photo sites),  
I would strongly recommend one of 3 things for this:

1. Either allow the photographer to upload a zip file with all the  
pictures in it
2. FTP access
3. Or give him a program (like Picasa) that uploads the pictures in the  
background from his computer

Just navigating and selecting 100 ~ 200 pictures to upload them is a  
real pain!

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
11/2/2007 | 11:47 AM.