Uploading Base64 images

[txssseal]

I know in paperclip it is built in as of 4.0 that Base64 encoded images will upload without any extra work. Does refile have any built in support for uploading Base64 images?

[jnicklas]

A couple of questions:

1. for what purpose? Base64 is a very inefficient encoding for large binary files. Its only advantage is being able to represent it somewhat sensibly in a non-binary file (like embedding in CSS).
2. How would Refile distinguish a Base64 encoded string?

[kdiogenes]

Some crop libs uses base64 to represent the cropped image: http://foliotek.github.io/Croppie/

[SimonBrazell]

Where:

class Test < ApplicationRecord
  attachment :image
end

In your controller you can do this to attach Base64: @test.image = StringIO.new(Base64.decode64(params[:image]))