Makes handling of file uploads really easy and has a nice integration with rmagick.

Vitals

Home	http://www.kanthak.net/opensource/file_column/
Repository	http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_file_column/plugins/file_column/trunk
License
Tags	attachment column files fu images upload Add tag:
Rating	(47 votes)
Owner	Sebastian Kanthak
Created	14 April 2006

Comments

Joe

23 July 2006

I like the idea, but the documentation is pretty weak. If it could be documented more, I think it would work.
Ivan

15 August 2006

Be sure to download the zip, the svn or script/plugin install may not work. Check out the O'Reilly Rails Cookbook for a useful intro to using file_column
eric

14 December 2006

Needs another development cycle. On my installation, the file column field is blank when editing. It might also be a good idea to store the file path in the database rather than in code, particularly if one needs more than one storage path.
john

26 June 2007

Can we show a progress bar while uploading.. i want to do a multi file upload and show the user a progess bar
Bob

18 July 2007

This plugin is outdated, there are lots of better options now. Check out file upload fu and others.
Tim Harper

31 October 2007

An updated version of file_column is here:

http://code.google.com/p/filecolumn/

It features some enhancements and bug-fixes.
dogcow

22 November 2007

I find using file_column difficult. For one thing, when things go wrong, it tends to just be totally quiet about it, and it's up to you to find out that the file didn't get uploaded after all. Besides, it seems I have to use begin_form_tag / end_form_tag to make it work when I need to use named forms (client absolutely won't have standard submit buttons and I have more than one form on the page). Bad, bad.