If you’re using the excellent dragonfly to manage and serve such assets, we’ve just released dragonfly-activerecord which lets you store assets to your app’s relational database.
It chunks and compresses files, is compatible with a variety of Rubies and databases, and is a drop-in replacements for Dragonfly’s default stores. It also plays nicely with Rack::Cache and/or a CDN for better performance.
This was reposted from HouseTrip’s developer blog.