# Thumbnails in Ruby/Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thumbnails-in-ruby-rails/196991>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 31, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thumbnails-in-ruby-rails/196991 "2009-08-31T09:07:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![hemantborole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@hemantborole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hemantborole)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thumbnails-in-ruby-rails/196991/1 "2009-08-31T09:07:39Z")

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Hi Champs,

Actually, i am uploading a file to my server… Now suppose if i uploads  
the file of more than 1Mb… then its taking a lot of space… And also  
taking a lot of time in showing that image … Just like thumbnails … 🙂  
So now what i want is that is there any way by which i can reduce or  
minimize the size of the file before saving to my database … I mean how  
to create thumbnail … Want to know each and every possible way … if  
possible … ?

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**Author:** ![hemantborole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@hemantborole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hemantborole)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thumbnails-in-ruby-rails/196991/2 "2009-08-31T09:53:58Z")

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On Aug 31, 2009, at 00:07 , Hemant B. wrote:

> to create thumbnail … Want to know each and every possible way … if  
> possible … ?

I’m a tad biased, but I use image\_science. 🙂