This is another plugin which i have implemented for File uploading. The main advantage of this is that we can integrate RMagick to it easily for generating thumbnails and giving other properties to the plugin.
The main thing after downloading the plugin from http://www.kanthak.net/opensource/file_column/file-column-0.3.1.tar.gz
you just need to put 2-3 lines of code and get things going
on the page from where u want to upload a file just write 1 line of code
<%= file_column_field "entry", "image" %>
and on the page where you want to display that file write the following line
<%= image_tag url_for_file_column(“entry”, “image”) %>
You can use RMagick and make thumbnails of your image by adding the following line in the model
class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base
file_column :image, :magick => {
:versions => { “thumb” => “50×50”, “medium” => “640×480>” }
}
end
or
class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base
file_column :image, :magick => { :geometry => “640×480>” }
end
write this in the model of the page where u want to implement the plugin
Thats it.. njoi
UPDATES
The old version of file column plugin doesnt work in rails 2.2 …to get working in rails 2.2 then you need to modify file_coulmn.rb file.
Update the line #619 in vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column.rb from
Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_s,
to
ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_s,
Or you can download the latest plugin from the github.com: http://github.com/rust/file_column/
