Slide from SFRails February 21, 2013 - A quick overview of the perrils of uploading files with Ruby on Rails and how using Filepicker.io can help. https://github.com/Filepicker/filepicker-rails

1. Dave Rauchwerk @elevenarms
dave@filepicker.io

2. ● Moved from Austin in
December
● I sometimes enjoy
eating canned corn
directly from the can
● According to current
NASA policy I'm too tall
to go space - must be
under 6ft to fly
● iOS && backbonejs
mobile web apps talking
to "RESTFUL" Rails on
heroku

3. THE FUTURE OF THE
INTERNET

5. Keep it lean - MVP
● Upload very
high-res
pictures of cats
(300 dpi)
● Rate
Grumpiness

6. Awesome Ways to Handle File
Uploads
Rails < 4
● Paperclip + rmagick + S3 - https://github.
com/thoughtbot/paperclip
● Carrierwave + minimagick + S3 - https:
//github.com/Filepicker/filepicker-rails
● filepicker_rails + S3
Rails 4 - The Future!
● Streaming!

7. Common Probs
Heroku
● files larger than 4mb
cause H11&H12
errors
Other Envs
● long running requests
take up workers
● config
● imagmagick memory
leaks

8. Solutions
● Separate Server
for uploads
(SOA)
● No Uploads
larger 4mb
● Upload directly
to S3

9. Ideal Architecture
Rails App Streaming Server
(uploads)
Long Long
Short
Client mobile || web Amazon S3
Rackspace Cloud
Azure Blobstore