In-place file upload with Ruby on Rails

Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & 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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