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Upload video files with progress bar using Rails, Paperclip and Javascript

by Alfredo Motta —

Rails does not help much when dealing with AJAX uploads by means of external JS libraries. I recently came across a case where a developer was struggling to use JS to upload a video to a Rails backend. The main reason to use JS was to have a progress bar, something that is missing in the Rails world. In this blog post I’ll show you how to implement the functionality in the simplest case possible.

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