Refile
Ruby file uploads, take 3 (by refile)
CarrierWave
Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks (by carrierwaveuploader)

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Refile | CarrierWave | |
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1 | 4 | |
2,438 | 8,776 | |
-0.2% | -0.1% | |
0.0 | 8.1 | |
8 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Refile
Posts with mentions or reviews of Refile.
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and similar projects.
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Migrating from Refile to ActiveStorage
Historically I've been using the Refile gem for attaching files to my Rails models. But the gem hasn't been maintained for a long time and since Rails 5.2 ActiveStorage has been my preferred way to go.
CarrierWave
Posts with mentions or reviews of CarrierWave.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-16.
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Released a Library for Synchronous Execution of Asynchronous Processes in JS/TS
Accel Record is also designed to be similar to Ruby on Rails' Active Record in terms of usability, and one of the things I want to achieve in the future is to create a library like CarrierWave. CarrierWave allows you to save images to external storage services (such as AWS S3) when saving records, and to achieve this with Accel Record, it is necessary to execute asynchronous processes such as image uploads synchronously. I expect that this process can be executed faster by using worker_threads instead of subprocesses.
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I've done a mistake when I've chosen ActiveStorage (Rails 7. Start Kit, Release 1.7)
Don't you know `carrierwave` and `shrine` work already with this secure way to name folders/files? - https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave - https://github.com/shrinerb/shrine
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Carrier Wave and How to Test Uploading a New Image to a ActiveRecord::Base Model
We’re a Rails shop at Forem. In the Forem code base we use the CarrierWave gem to help with our file uploads.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Refile and CarrierWave you can also consider the following projects:
Shrine - File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications
PaperClip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

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Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
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