Idle Hacking

I have a pretty fun little resumable file uploader, I wrote using google gears and a tiny ruby rack file.  It’s possible to put this uploader behind an nginx or apache and share a session .   It  can upload multiple files and keep track of the progress of each file.  Uploads can be paused and resumed.   This works because the files are split into chunks and uploaded 1 meg at a time.    The source is here:  http://github.com/taf2/resume-up/tree/master

Here’s a fun screen shot of it in action:

Gears asks for permission.

The Anerian uploader design, with the select files button

Select some images to upload

Let the upload begin,  notice the “Pause” buttons

Pause the first to uploads and let the second to use more bandwidth.

A little further along, and we pause them all.

Just one more to go!

And finally, they’re all uploaded:

Try it out for yourself:

git clone git://github.com/taf2/resume-up.git
ruby uploader.rb

All you need is ruby, thin, and google gears running in your browser.

Software google gears, Javascript