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I have a simple Rails app hosted on Heroku.
I’ trying to upload a 50MB file and Heroku shuts down the request after 30 seconds – as expected from reading their Docs.
How do I handle this situation?
I was thinking of creating a PHP file on my dedicated server and perform an AJAX request with the file to that PHP file and return a string URL to the file asset. Then in Rails when submitting the form, I would use that file path to the dedicated server.
You should have the user upload the file directly from the browser to AWS S3 or similar service. Here’s a blog post on how to configure this. This means that the file will not have to travel through Heroku. It has the added benefit of making the file immediately available to all dynos if you’ve scaled your app to multiple dynos (versus being available on just the dyno that accepted the upload).