Hello,
I would like to find a way to build functionality into my Ruby on Rails web application that would enable the user to take a picture from within the application using some sort of digital camera or webcam and push the image into the site's MySQL database. This would be done only by the site administrators which would only be a couple of users, meaning the model of webcam, tc. could be specifically purchased to meet this need. The problem is that the volume of items being entered into this web application make the administrative overhead of taking a picture, storing it locally, and then uploading it unmanageable.
I am thinking there is a way to accomplish this in Flash or something similar potentially. The Flash on the site would effectively interact with the webcam and the functionality of snapping the picture and pushing it into the database directly from the application could be built into the Flash application so that the photo would never have to be stored on the local machine.
Is this a viable potential solution or is there some better way you may know of to make this possible directly within the web app? Thanks!
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