/upload_progress

Upload progress plugin

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

=Overview

The upload progress plugin will alter your rails CGI handling to track the uploaded status of multipart/form encoded posts.  The plugin will also add helper methods to create an AJAX updating progress bar.

==Installing

Run "script/plugin upload_progress" or checkout the source into your plugins folder.

	svn checkout http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn/plugins/upload_progress

Expand this archive in your RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins directory.  The resulting plugin directory should look like:

	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/README.txt
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/Rakefile
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/init.rb
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/public/
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/public/stylesheets/
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/public/stylesheets/upload_progress.css
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/lib/
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/doc/
	RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins/upload_progress/test/

The stylesheets included in public/stylesheets are used as a guideline for styling your progress bar and status messages.  You can copy them directly into your own public/stylesheets folder or copy and paste.

==Documentation

You can create the documentation by running:

	rake rdoc

==Requirements

The requirments for getting periodic upload progress updates can be found here:

http://sean.treadway.info/articles/2005/07/18/upload-progress-checklist

==Credits

Sean Treadway <seant@superchannel.org> http://sean.treadway.info
Thomas Fuchs <thomas@fesch.at> http://mir.aculo.us

==License

This plugin is released under the MIT license.  See MIT-LICENSE for details