Uploading Pictures Ruby on Rails

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bgadoci picture bgadoci · Dec 7, 2009 · Viewed 62.7k times · Source

I am new to rails so sorry if this is easy. I am wondering the best way to upload pictures and display them in Ruby on Rails. I have a blog and would like to have the option of attaching a picture when creating a post.

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danpickett picture danpickett · Dec 7, 2009

Paperclip is quite awesome. There's an excellent RailsCast about it - http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip

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