How to Create an Active Storage Previewer

March 27, 2018

Rails 5.2
ActiveStorage
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Chris Oliver

Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

About This Episode

Learn how to create a file previewer with Active Storage in Rails 5.2+ to generate preview images of application files. In this example, we'll be converting Powerpoint presentations to png image previews.

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