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This chapter covers
� Uploading files to the app
� Locking down file access based on declared
permissions
� Uploading multiple files using JavaScript, jQuery,
and CoffeeScript
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File uploading
In chapter 9, you learned how to restrict access to specific actions in your application,
such as viewing projects and creating tickets, by defining a Permission model
that keeps track of which users have access to which actions.
Ticketee’s getting pretty useful now. This chapter focuses on file uploading, the
next logical step in a ticket-tracking application. Sometimes, when people file a
ticket on an application such as Ticketee, they want to attach a file to provide more
information for that ticket, because words alone can only describe so much. For
example, a ticket description saying, “This button should move up a bit,” could be
better explained with a picture showing where the button is now and where it
should be. Users may want to attach any kind of file: a picture, a crash log, a text
file, you name it. Currently, Ticketee has no way to attach files to the ticket: people
would have to upload them elsewhere and then include a link with their ticket
description.