# Questions on starting app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 10, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-starting-app/111735 "2007-08-10T07:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![banjomamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@banjomamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banjomamo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-starting-app/111735/1 "2007-08-10T07:35:34Z")
hi. newbie here. ive never programmed before but i built a simplistic blog app and am ready to move on to an app that i can use for my clients (motion graphics biz). i want to build an app that has some details about the project and also displays the video itself (which will either be embedded using flash or quicktime). my questions are: 1 - should i keep the videos out of the DB (usually around 50megs each) and just store the path to the file? 2 - are there any special ways to embed swf or quicktime files with rails?