How to POST files from HTML5 Drag-Drop to a Rails 3 App & Paperclip?

Question

I\'m trying to get some html5 drag-and-drop functionality in a Rails 3 app with Paperclip. So, basically:

1. One or more files are dragged and dropped onto a DIV

Answer 1

Have a look at

https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki

and scroll down to Ruby (on Rails). That probably is exactly what you are looking for, including a tutorial on how to use it with Rails 3 and paperclip. And from my own experiences it works like a charm.

And as Joost commented: https://github.com/yortz/carrierwave_jquery_file_upload shows a nice example of how to combine carrierwave with jquery_file_upload

Answer 2

Maybe these can help: https://github.com/valums/file-uploader and https://github.com/newbamboo/rack-raw-upload