Dragonfly backed by ActiveRecord
If your app’s dynamic assets (user uploaded images for instance) weigh up to a few gigabytes, it can make sense to store them in the app’s database instead of another service (e.g. Amazon’s S3): your stack has one less dependency to care about, and backups get more complicated.
If you’re using the excellent dragonfly to manage and serve such assets, we’ve just released dragonfly-activerecord which lets you store assets to your app’s relational database.
It chunks and compresses files, is compatible with a variety of Rubies and databases, and is a drop-in replacements for Dragonfly’s default stores. It also plays nicely with Rack::Cache and/or a CDN for better performance.
