This has been published on the Citrusbyte blog.

The Ruby ecosystem has many HTTP clients gems to choose from. Some are built on libcurl (Typhoeus, Curb, Patron), some on Ruby’s Net::HTTP (RestClient, HTTParty, Nestful), some in pure Ruby (HTTPClient, Excon, http.rb), and some are wrappers around existing libraries (Faraday, HTTPI).

The ImageProcessing gem has just reached version 1.0, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to write an article about it. For those who don’t know, ImageProcessing is a wrapper gem that provides common image processing functionality needed when accepting image uploads from users (most notably resizing images).

This is the 6th part of a series of blog posts about Shrine. In this part we'll show how to do direct uploads to S3 or your app on the client side, as well as how to handle large uploads.

This is the 5th part of a series of blog posts about Shrine. In this part I talk about how Shrine extracts and stores file metadata.