How to Upload Files with Ease Using DragonFly: New on Premium

File uploads are generally a tricky area in web development. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will learn how to use Dragonfly, a powerful Ruby gem that makes it easy and efficient to add any kind of upload functionality to a Rails project.

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What We’re Going to Build

Our sample application will display a list of users, and for each one of them, we will be able to upload an avatar and have it stored. Additionally, Dragonfly will allow us to:

• Dynamically manipulate images without saving additional copies
• Leverage HTTP caching to optimize our application load

Additionally, in this lesson, we will follow a BDD [Behavior Driven Development] approach, using Cucumber and RSpec.

Tuts+ Premium

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I hope you’ll consider checking it out! In addition to learning a huge variety of new skills, it’s also a fantastic way to say thank you to Nettuts+.