From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T05:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: is ruby only usable for pictures not for documents ?

On Jun 3, 1:39 pm, Herman Müller <dgwa...@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Ruby-Community,

Hi.

> I searched the last days a lot for finding a plugin or tutorial for
> storing documents (like pdf, doc, dox, with mime-type etc.) into the
> database, the only thing I found was plugins or howtos for storing
> pictures (attachment_fu etc.).

attachment_fu can store whatever you give it.  The examples for the
has_attachment method includes ones like: has_attachment :content_type
=> 'application/pdf'

> But it looks like, that RoR is only good for storing pictures, do
> sombody knows howt to store *.pdf, *.docs etc. into the database?

Ruby on Rails has no intrinsic issue with storing PDFs in a database,
or any intrinsic strength for storing images.  I'd suggest reading the
documentation for attachment_fu to see how to do it.

HTH,
Chris