# Acts\_as\_attachment failing tests, thumbnailing **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 30, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003 "2006-08-30T20:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/1 "2006-08-30T20:57:58Z")
Hi all, I’m having trouble getting acts\_as\_attachment going. It’s installed and configured as per the documentation: [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/articles/acts\_as\_attachment](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/articles/acts_as_attachment) However, it’s throwing the error that: undefined method `find\_or\_initialize\_by\_thumbnail\_and\_parent\_id’ for BranchLogo:Class when trying to create an object. It’s also failing a large number of tests when I try and run the unit tests: 47 tests, 152 assertions, 0 failures, 12 errors (All to do with thumbnailing) Have I got something misconfigured? Or have I grabbed a broken version? Or is this a known problem? Thanks a lot! Tom ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/2 "2006-08-31T00:06:23Z")
Tom T. wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m having trouble getting acts\_as\_attachment going. It’s installed > and configured as per the documentation: With thanks from Rick, I’ve managed to get this going. Turned out the latest version needs edge rails, and I was running 1.1.6. This version works correctly: [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts_as_attachment-1.1.6/) Cheers, Tom ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/3 "2006-09-08T12:24:00Z")
Tom T. wrote: > Tom T. wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I’m having trouble getting acts\_as\_attachment going. It’s installed > > and configured as per the documentation: > > With thanks from Rick, I’ve managed to get this going. Turned out the > latest version needs edge rails, and I was running 1.1.6. > > This version works correctly: > > [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts_as_attachment-1.1.6/) > > Cheers, > > Tom Hi, Im having the same trouble with thumbnails. Im running rails 1.1.6 and also installed this acts\_as\_attachment version [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts_as_attachment-1.1.6/) ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/4 "2006-09-21T12:21:14Z")
nevermind, im working to hard and have gone deaf dumb and blind. Is it bad if there is a floating grey thing in my vision ? ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/5 "2006-09-21T12:18:22Z")
I have the smae problem. I need to get the following version: [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/tags/acts_as_attachment-1.1.6/) I havent used svn before, but asume i have to install that to get this plugin. Well appart from that i can screen scrape the file contents. Suggestions on easiest way to download would be appreciated. Yeah yeah nubie question =) ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-failing-tests-thumbnailing/67003/6 "2007-08-21T23:17:36Z")
Adam wrote: > nevermind, im working to hard and have gone deaf dumb and blind. > > Is it bad if there is a floating grey thing in my vision ? I know it is very late, but for ppl who still use Rails 1.1.6, here is the solution for this problem > **[acts\_as\_attachment error : undefined method...](http://bloggershetty.blogspot.com/2007/08/actsasattachment-error-undefined-method.html)** > > You will possibly be seeing this error when you use acts\_as\_attachment for thumbnailing. undefined method \`find\_or\_initialize\_by\_thumbnail\_... basically replace find\_or\_initialize\_thumbnail in insance\_methods.rb method with this def find\_or\_initialize\_thumbnail(file\_name\_suffix) respond\_to?(:parent\_id) ? thumbnail\_class.find\_by\_thumbnail\_and\_parent\_id (file\_name\_suffix.to\_s, id) || thumbnail\_class.new(:thumbnail=\>file\_name\_suffix.to\_s, :parent\_id=\>id) : thumbnail\_class.new(:thumbnail=\>file\_name\_suffix.to\_s) end