On Nov 28, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Matt White wrote:
> Rogelio,
>
> It will arrive in Rails just like any other uploaded file... It
> will show up in params[:model][:file_field], or whatever you've
> named your input file field. Until you do something else with it,
> it only lives as a file in /tmp/. You need to move it somewhere
> else, though, because Rails will do away with it once the request
> is complete :)
>
> Something like:
>
> @file = params[:model][:file_field]
> File.open("/path/to/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "wb") { |file|
> file.write(@file.read) }
>
> Would copy the file from it's temp location to /path/to/
> original_filename on your box. As you were wondering, it will end
> up on whatever machine is hosting the mongrel that the client was
> connected to. So, you may need to scp it to an assets server or
> something when it's done... That's as far as I can go without
> knowing more about your setup ;)
>
This is what I'd like to improve in Mongrel. It's really wasteful to
write the file to a TempFile and then rewrite it again elsewhere. For
really big files (multi-gigabyte) the performance hit would be
tremendous.
I'm thinking furiously about how to properly manage this. If anyone
has any ideas, feel free to share them on the list.
cr
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