What is the best approach to handle large file uploads in a rails app?

Question

I am interested in understanding the different approaches to handling large file uploads in a Rails application, 2-5Gb files.

I understand that in order to transfer

Answer 1

http://www.jedi.be/blog/2009/04/10/rails-and-large-large-file-uploads-looking-at-the-alternatives/ has some good comparisons of the options, including some outside of Rails.

Please go through it.It was helpful in my case

Also another site to go to is:- http://bclennox.com/extremely-large-file-uploads-with-nginx-passenger-rails-and-jquery

Please let me know if any of this does not work out