Rails Binary Stream support

Question

I\'m going to be starting a project soon that requires support for large-ish binary files. I\'d like to use Ruby on Rails for the webapp, but I\'m concerned with the BLOB su

Answer 1

You can use the :binary type in your ActiveRecord migration and also constrain the maximum size:

class BlobTest < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :files do |t|
      t.column :file_data, :binary, :limit => 1.megabyte
    end
  end
end

ActiveRecord exposes the BLOB (or CLOB) contents as a Ruby String.