Easily Allow File Upload with Rails and Refile

Enabling image uploading as a feature in your web application cannot be underestimated. Especially when it is an application that has to do with users having a profile. There are lots of gems available out there to help you handle this in a few lines of code, and most of them have been covered here on SitePoint Ruby.

They include:

• CarrierWave - Image Processing with Rails by Vasu K.
• PaperClip - Uploading Files with PaperClip by Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
• Dragonfly - Better Uploads with Dragonfly by Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski

In this tutorial, we will be learning how to enable image uploading in Rails using Refile. As written on Refile's github page, it is a modern file upload library for Ruby applications. It is simple, yet powerful.

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