In-place file upload with Ruby on Rails

My friends often asked me how to upload file using AJAX, and usually they got answer “in no way”. Correct answer, but what if I need to upload file without full page reloading? And, of course, I want to use RJS in this case. Here I’ll explain what to do to get effect very similar to AJAX file upload (btw, Gmail uses this technique).

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