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title: A maintained fork of Paperclip
teaser: 'A fork of Paperclip is being maintained.

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tags: news,paperclip,ruby
author: Mike Burns
published_on: 2020-03-10
---

Nearly two years ago we began [the process of deprecating Paperclip], our file
upload library for Ruby on Rails. Our advice was to move projects to
[ActiveStorage],  Rails' new official file upload mechanism.

[the process of deprecating Paperclip]: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/closing-the-trombone
[ActiveStorage]: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html

For new projects this advice works well, but for many long-running projects the
idea of replacing their file uploading infrastructure with an entirely new,
incompatible architecture is simply not in their development roadmap.

A design and development firm named [Kreeti] has picked up Paperclip and is
maintaining a fork, [kt-paperclip]. Be sure to check that out if you need to
buy more time before migrating to ActiveStorage.

[Kreeti]: https://www.kreeti.com/
[kt-paperclip]: https://rubygems.org/gems/kt-paperclip