Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_10

10. Active Storage

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

(1)

Bowling Green, KY, USA

(2)

Gardendale, AL, USA

(3)

Hollywood, FL, USA

(4)

FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

With version 5.2, Rails introduced a system to make it easy to handle files attached to your application’s models. Web applications often need to perform tasks such as saving user-uploaded files, creating thumbnail versions of images, and validating file types. Previously, developers depended on other gems to handle this functionality, but now we have the option to use a system that’s a full-fledged part of Rails. ...