# Rails-file-uploading **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 17, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431 "2009-10-17T00:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/1 "2009-10-17T00:23:25Z")
Hello. I am comp. new in RoR and i have problems.I followed this instructions: > **[Ruby on Rails - File Uploading](http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/rails-file-uploading.htm)** > > Ruby on Rails File Uploading - You may have a requirement in which you want your site visitors to upload a file on your server. Rails makes it very easy to handle this requirement. Now we will proceed with a simple and small Rails project. But when i load [http://localhost:3000/upload/index](http://localhost:3000/upload/index) in Safari, i get Template is missing Missing template app\views\upload\uploadfile.rhtml in view path app/views This backslashes seems strange to me and i tried with ‘/’ in stead of. Without success. I can’t imagine that the tutorial is wrong. So what’s the problem? Thank you for ideas. eh ---
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/2 "2009-10-17T01:42:42Z")
Hi there… I wrote a tutorial about uploading files in a Rails app using a plugin called “Paperclip” - you might want to try that instead: [http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/4/30/paperclip-sample-app](http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/4/30/paperclip-sample-app) - pat On Oct 16, 6:23 pm, Engadiner H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/3 "2009-10-17T12:34:03Z")
ok, thank you. But first i spend some time to find a solution for the other tutorial because i want to understand my mistake. I think now its really a path-problem. As a only-mac-user i did not know, that there indeed exists backslash-paths. eh Pat Shaughnessy wrote: > Hi there… I wrote a tutorial about uploading files in a Rails app > using a plugin called “Paperclip” - you might want to try that > instead: > > [Paperclip sample app - Pat Shaughnessy](http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/4/30/paperclip-sample-app) > > - pat > > On Oct 16, 6:23�pm, Engadiner H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/4 "2009-10-17T15:01:38Z")
ok it was a path-desaster combined with a deprecated and subsequently removed function start\_form\_tag. Engadiner H. wrote: > ok, thank you. But first i spend some time to find a solution for the > other tutorial because i want to understand my mistake. > > I think now its really a path-problem. As a only-mac-user i did not > know, that there indeed exists backslash-paths. > eh > > Pat Shaughnessy wrote: > > > Hi there… I wrote a tutorial about uploading files in a Rails app > > using a plugin called “Paperclip” - you might want to try that > > instead: > > > > [Paperclip sample app - Pat Shaughnessy](http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/4/30/paperclip-sample-app) > > > > - pat > > > > On Oct 16, 6:23�pm, Engadiner H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/5 "2009-10-17T16:02:29Z")
This tutorial was written by a Windows user. Assuming you are working on a linux / mac osx / unix system you need to change all occurances of "" to “/” in path specifications. “app\views\upload\uploadfile.rhtml” becomes “app/views/upload/uploadfile.rhtml” Also, based on the “rhtml” extension I’ld say this tutorial is somewhat dated. Current practice would be: “uploadfile.html.erb” If you don’t already know it, this is a good place to start: > **[Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/)** > > Ruby on Rails Guides enjoy On Oct 16, 6:23 pm, Engadiner H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@engadinerhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/engadinerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-file-uploading/177431/6 "2009-10-18T18:18:39Z")
this looks sweet for inline file uploading [http://coderack.org/users/freels/entries/24-inlineuploader](http://coderack.org/users/freels/entries/24-inlineuploader)