My thoughts on UploadColumn 0.3

So far UploadColumn has been a real success, it works pretty much exactly like I want it to. This means that to me it feels like there shouldn’t really be any changes to the API, however there should be some improvements to internal structuring as well as a few new features.

* tmp_dir defaults to public/tmp

* abstract tmpfile/stringio into a SanitizedFile class.

* Add support for generic manipulation engines/processors.

* Add engines for ImageScience and possibly minimagick.

* Built in support for GIF animations

Competition has gotten stiffer now with Rick’s excellent attachment_fu, imho a mighty improvement over acts_as_attachment. I hope I have time to implement those features for 0.3 and to me it looks like UploadColumn will be mostly feature-complete at that point. From then on it’s only stability and compatibility fixes revving up to ver 1.0.

Hello World

This blog is born more out of necessity than desire to write anything constructive. Maybe I’ll share my wisdom on assorted topics related to design, on CSS on Ruby on Rails or other things related to the web? Who knows? For the moment though, this will give me an opportunity to publish some stuff I’ve been working on in RoR, mainly my UploadColumn plugin, which is a pretty powerful rewrite of Sebastian Kanthaks FileColumn plugin. It’s not quite ready yet, but it might just make an appearance…