On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Herman Mler <dgwauss / web.de> wrote:
> Normally when you try to develop professional solutions you have to
> store documents like contracts tc. and something else into the
> database.

Well, you have to store them *somewhere*.  I'd argue that the database
is not a very good fit.  You can't query against a blob.

> But it looks like, that RoR is only good for storing pictures, do
> sombody knows howt to store *.pdf, *.docs etc. into the database? Maybe
> with full-text-indexing?

Generally it's better to store the files on the filesystem and paths
in the database.  As for indexing, you'll need to devise a method to
extract meaningful data from your documents and store that data in the
database.

Ben