PaperClip VS Refile

Compare PaperClip vs Refile and see what are their differences.

PaperClip

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord (by thoughtbot)

Refile

Ruby file uploads, take 3 (by refile)
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PaperClip Refile
9 1
9,061 2,453
- 0.0%
0.0 0.0
9 months ago 2 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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PaperClip

Posts with mentions or reviews of PaperClip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.

Refile

Posts with mentions or reviews of Refile. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Refile yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PaperClip and Refile you can also consider the following projects:

CarrierWave - Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks

Shrine - File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

kt-paperclip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

DragonFly - A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!

rack-secure-upload - Upload files securely

attache - Yet another approach to file upload

shoulda-matchers - Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality