Development Blog: Viget Labs

Mark Cornick, Former Staffer, October 28, 2008

Over the first few years of Rails' history, there have been a few attempts to simplify the process of handling file uploads. FileColumn was one of the early winners. Now Paperclip is becoming popular, for a variety of reasons (among them the lack of a dependency on RMagick, which is the source of enough problems to fill a few more blog posts.)

Recently, I decided to take one of my older Rails projects and replace FileColumn with Paperclip. The process isn't exactly straightforward, but it can be done.

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Patrick Reagan, Development Director, October 24, 2008

There was a palpable excitement in the air when I arrived at the office yesterday – voting for the Rails Rumble competition had started and 2 of the Viget teams at HQ were tracking progress as our applications bounced around at the top of the leaderboard. Ben posted the list of the competing Viget teams and the the lessons learned, so I thought I'd expand on some of lessons we learned as a team while building the Qflip application:

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