Paperclip vs Attachment_fu vs MySQL

[unknown888]

Has anyone done image uploading in Rails. How did you do that?. Did you use any plugins like PaperClip, attachment_fu?.

I have found that those plugins are limited in the sense that all of them creates separate folder structure for images. My user base is more than 50,000 and its becoming a nightmare to have that many folders.

How did you get around those limitations?. Do you think its wise to store images in MySQL db?

[NickJ]

Hello,

You can refer following URLs for more information on it.

Image cropping and Upload - Rails Forum - Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum
Ruby on Rails guides

Regards,
Nick J.

[jennifer]

Both are equally good plugins. If you're just looking for a simple tool Paperclip is good for you.

[unknown888]

Hi Jenni

Paperclip is good but for every record it creates a directory with 3 sub directories (thumb, medium etc). Its a real nightmare if you have a reasonably busy site with 50,000 records. Certainly a NO NO. Besides, it just leaves those directories without removing when you delete a record.

I stumbled upon another fantastic plugin called <a href="http://github.com/Squeegy/fleximage/tree/master">Fleximage</a>. It is a plugin that can be used with the above situation.

Upload works OK, deleting works OK, but rendering seem to have problem that it is not taking the :image_directory values. I am just stuck here. Have you used it before?. Any ideas/

I am developing a Craigslist clone that I am planning to release to Open source community. You can have glimpse of it at aigss dot classifieds dot org dot in ( not much ads in there but still worth looking ).

Any help to crack this problem is a great help for me.

[unknown888]

guys, ignore my request. Paperclip itself has a provision to specify a single directory in which all images can be stored and retrieved.

[jennifer]

Great! You may also want to search google lots of tutorials available for Paperclip.

How was your experience with Fleximage though?