Refile
Ruby file uploads, take 3 (by refile)
Shrine
File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications (by shrinerb)

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Refile | Shrine | |
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1 | 8 | |
2,439 | 3,194 | |
-0.2% | 0.2% | |
0.0 | 5.2 | |
8 months ago | 5 months 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.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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.
Shrine
Posts with mentions or reviews of Shrine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
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Hanami Shrine - file handling in Hanami
We will be using shrine and I want to start this post by saying a few words about it.
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[Poll] How do you handle file attachments in your Rails app in 2023?
Shrine is great, has more features and a simpler API (imo) than ActiveStorage https://shrinerb.com
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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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A First Look at Hanami 2 for Ruby
In general, even though the Hanami ecosystem lacks any "plug-and-play" solutions such as Devise, you can use many existing libraries not tightly coupled to Ruby on Rails. For authentication, you can use Warden, OmniAuth or Rodauth. For uploads there is Shrine. The pagination is built into ROM. Integration with exception catchers such as Rollbar is easy.
- If you use shrine, lock net-protocol to < 0.2.0 for now
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Image Uploading with Shrine
Once I knew I wanted to upload images I stated to look around for different ways to do so. I came across a gem named shrine which can be found here https://shrinerb.com/. This is were the hard part came in. Aside from installing the gem like normal, there was a second step that needed to be done to allow images to be rendered. I needed to install https://imagemagick.org/index.php ImageMagick onto my system. After this I was able to add images.
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is it possible to convert a json string into a StringIO or other file-like object?
A [file field submission](https://github.com/shrinerb/shrine/wiki/Adding-Direct-S3-Uploads) (without Dashboard/Webcam) takes hidden_field :image, value: @photo.cached_image_data and a file_field :image selection in the form, then does this in console when saved:
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Shrine Photo Uploader – Galeria de Fotos
Toolkit: Shrine
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Refile and Shrine you can also consider the following projects:
PaperClip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord
CarrierWave - Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks

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Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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