I know that the theme of loading files with rails is quite common on SO, but I ask myself some questions that I could not find answers to.
I am trying to allow users of my application to upload multiple files using the very polished jQuery-File-Upload (JQFU for the rest of the message) and store them directly on AWS S3. The result that I would like to achieve is one that will use the minimum amount of resources (storage, CPU ...) on the machine where my rails application is hosted.
After some research, it turned out that many people use either a medium or a paper clip. But I'm afraid that it consumes too many resources on the hosting.
In addition, there is a very good (as always) railscast # 383 and gem s3_direct_uploadthat only uses JQFU to upload multiple files to AWS S3, which seems to be the best fit for my purpose, unfortunately it uses the JQFU basic installation and is pretty dated .
I would like to have beautiful presentations with progress indicators and buttons, for example, in a demo site .
So, firstly, my assumptions are simply wrong? Then, if someone has already managed to get s3_direct_uploadto work the way I described above, provide some recommendations to explain how you achieved it.
Greetings