Add Upload powers to katuma

[andresgutgon]

WAT

I think it's something nice to have be able to upload images in an application.

Some uses could be:

1. Users upload avatar.
2. Products with photo.
3. Group home photo ala Facebook page.

Tech

I'm talking about use something like paperclip or carrierwave or another one that you consider is better for our needs.

Voluntaries?

@enricostano , @edulan @sauloperez ? :)

Motivation

A part from real utility of being able to upload image in the app, for me is the psychological factor. It's very sad being developing the front end without see avatars. Come on :)

[edulan]

@andresgutgon I can take care of that as I already did for the photobooth.

From my experience, using gems like paperclip is the easiest way possible, at least for backend. We can also use workers for image processing.
For frontend it requires a bit more work, as you'd have to adapt your XHR request to support multipart uploads.

We can talk about that offline if you want 👍

[enricostano]

I'm in of course with this, just let's talk about planning the implementation bearing in mind future use cases that we already are aware of.

[andresgutgon]

For frontend it requires a bit more work, as you'd have to adapt your XHR request to support multipart uploads.

That's another story :) Let's add this feature to the backend and then we make the changes in the front end

[enricostano]

This is another option https://rubygems.org/gems/dragonfly

Let's try to pick the most lightweight solution, if possible of course.

[andresgutgon]

Here the winner is Paperclip
https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_file_uploads

[enricostano]

That's not the right criteria IMO, please let's try to apply critical thinking.

[andresgutgon]

What's the right criteria?

• Number of commiters
• Last commit
• Number of downloads
• Number of bugs
• ...

[rewritten]

Consider refile (new library from the ones behind Carrierwave, it's supposed to be better.) https://github.com/refile/refile

Se also: https://ruby5.codeschool.com/episodes/626-episode-583-september-15th-2015/stories/4952-best-rails-image-uploader

[rewritten]

Also for avatars there is a neat and free option at avatars.io (supports getting avatars from social networks, gravatar and even almost transparent uploads)

[enricostano]

thanks @rewritten nice inputs!

on criterias @andresgutgon , the first one should be: what we actually need, knowing the use cases and choosing the right tool. Community adoption is of course something to take in account but should not lead us to blindly adopt stuff.

[andresgutgon]

Thanks @rewritten nice!

@enricostano agree on put our needs before other criteria. But I think all those options are good for us. Aren't they?

[enricostano]

If all those options are good for us (still not sure though) we should choose the one that requires less dependencies. And after that we can talk about community adoption.

[andresgutgon]

If all those options are good for us (still not sure though) we should choose the one that requires less dependencies. And after that we can talk about community adoption.

Sounds good to me 👍

[enricostano]

😍

[andresgutgon]

BTW just saying that experiment with webtorrent for managing our assets would super cool https://torrentfreak.com/webtorrent-brings-bittorrent-to-the-web-impresses-netflix-151213/