Yep, file_column is the way to go for now!

Yep, file_column IS the way to go for now. RMagick works like magic with it. What’s more, file_column does things basically the way I wanted to do them, storing things in the file system in a logical, directory heirarchy. It doesn’t use RESTful routes for the directories, at least not with the setup I’ve got, though I’m sure it could. Regardless, REST is not a priority at the moment; file_column works! So now I’m on to other things with my app!

The one thing I did notice, is that file_column seems to make it’s calls to RMagick via the model rather than the controller. This is quite significant I think. This indicates to me, something I was already suspecting: RMagick calls work better from the model than from the controller.

I’ll just have to confirm that theory at a later date, when I try to recreate my own upload & resize code.