# Upload image without rmagic **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 10, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095 "2007-02-10T00:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/1 "2007-02-10T00:06:01Z")
I need a way to upload an image and display it without using any of the plugins that use rmagic. I have used the plugins (file\_column, fleximage) which both use rmagic and gave me problems (never got fleximage to work) Thanks in advance - K ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/2 "2007-02-10T01:28:14Z")
I got FlexImage to work! Yahoo. I am still looking for a way to upload images without rmagic though. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/3 "2007-02-10T02:00:09Z")
Kim wrote: > I need a way to upload an image and display it without using any of > the plugins that use rmagic. I have used the plugins (file\_column, > fleximage) which both use rmagic and gave me problems (never got > fleximage to work) > > Thanks in advance - K To simply write an uploaded file to the disk on the server is pretty easy. # view \<% form\_tag({:action =\> ‘upload’}, :multipart =\> true) do %\> \<%= file\_field\_tag ‘file’ %\> \<%= submit\_tag ‘Upload!’ %\> \<% end %\> # controller def upload file = params[:file].original\_filename path = “#{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/uploads/#{file}” File.open path, ‘wb’ do |f| f.write(params[:file].read) end ``` flash[:notice] = "#{file} uploaded successfuly to #{path}" redirect_to :action => 'index' ``` end If you want to manipulate the images in any way you must use RMagick. As far as I know it’s the only way to resize images in ruby. Although, if you don;t want to use RMagick, you can use ImageMagick via command line. I haven’t done this exactly, but ImageMagick gives you a command line program called “convert”. def resize\_image(file, size) `convert #{file} --resize #{size}" #maybe end Now I don’t know the exact format of the arguments to convert but something like that may work. ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/4 "2007-02-10T04:57:35Z")
You can resizes images using `/usr/local/bin/convert #{whatever}`. That’s how I do it. On 2/9/07, Alex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > easy. > path = “#{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/uploads/#{file}” > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee) ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/5 "2007-02-10T20:15:42Z")
How about if I want to load an image to a DB? On 2/9/07, Alex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > To simply write an uploaded file to the disk on the server is pretty > file = params[:file].original\_filename > As far as I know it’s the only way to resize images in ruby. > something like that may work. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Kim G. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid “We are all stakeholders in the Karma economy.” ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/6 "2007-02-10T20:17:43Z")
Are you using ImageMagic? Can you explain: `/usr/local/bin/convert #{whatever}`. Thanks, -K On 2/9/07, Carl L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > the plugins that use rmagic. I have used the plugins (file\_column, > > > \<%= file\_field\_tag ‘file’ %\> > > > > > > > – > EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee) > > > – Kim G. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid “We are all stakeholders in the Karma economy.” ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/7 "2007-02-11T04:07:10Z")
Carl L. wrote: > As for loading an image to a DB, I really would advise against doing > that. Having all that binary data in the database would slow it down a > lot. There are a lot of alternatives and unless your site grows > massive, you won’t need anything more than just writing the files in a > directory somewhere. With proper caching and optimizations, it doesn;t affect performance much, and it makes backing it all up much easier. ---
**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upload-image-without-rmagic/85095/8 "2007-02-10T20:22:43Z")
Yeah, that’s using imagemagick, however it’s not loading the image into the main mongrel process and making memory usage shoot through the roof. It’s using the command line tool (convert). Basically, write the image to be processed to a file somewhere and run convert on it. As for loading an image to a DB, I really would advise against doing that. Having all that binary data in the database would slow it down a lot. There are a lot of alternatives and unless your site grows massive, you won’t need anything more than just writing the files in a directory somewhere. On 2/10/07, Kim G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > end > > > end > > “We are all stakeholders in the Karma economy.” > > > – EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee)