Refile VS DragonFly

Compare Refile vs DragonFly and see what are their differences.

Refile

Ruby file uploads, take 3 (by refile)

DragonFly

A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more! (by markevans)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Refile DragonFly
1 1
2,452 2,115
-0.3% -
0.0 0.0
3 months ago 3 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Migrating from Refile to ActiveStorage
    1 project | dev.to | 4 Mar 2021
    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.

DragonFly

Posts with mentions or reviews of DragonFly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Refile and DragonFly 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

PaperClip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

rack-secure-upload - Upload files securely

attache - Yet another approach to file upload

kt-paperclip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord