On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 4:56:19 PM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > > On Jan 19, 2020, at 4:10 PM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Got my chat app working in rails 6 with channels but now how do I let > users send pictures in channels? I've seen chat apps where after you > upload the picture it displays with a circled button that says send and you > can also delete it instead How do I do that? > > > > With JavaScript. One of the neatest implementations I've seen of this is > in Trix (ActionText), which is open-source, so you could see how they do it > there. Also GitLab has a nice one, and the source is available for that > (unlike GitHub, who also have one). You're basically intercepting the drop > and paste events, checking to see whether the payload was an image, and > then doing some out-of-band trickery to make a file attachment using a > separate model and controller. Trix uses the new ActiveStorage goodies for > its implementation. Not sure what the others use. > > Walter >
I already have a Picture model with polymorphic associations for different models that use it I'll use that -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/70b1541c-3045-4176-8ff0-68962d72c164%40googlegroups.com.
