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If you're using something like Passenger, I believe it does the upload in nginx/apache to a tempfile and then hands it off to Rails.

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Thanks for that bit of info. At the moment things like Passenger are obscured from my view/concern, as I'm not managing the servers myself, but should that change I'll definitely keep that tidbit in mind.

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