Rails 3 - upload files to public directory

Question

I\'m looking for a simple way to upload a file (an xml file) to the public directory of Rails 3. Once it\'s there I want to open it, parse the contents and delete the file a

Answer 1

img = params[:user][:photo]
File.open(Rails.root.join('public','uploads',img.original_filename),'wb') do |file| file.write(img.read)