# Attachment\_fu & update\_attributes... bug? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 28, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachment-fu-update-attributes-bug/90365 "2007-03-28T05:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![osteo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@osteo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/osteo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachment-fu-update-attributes-bug/90365/1 "2007-03-28T05:10:00Z")
It seems that attachment\_fu is a pretty popular plugin (it’s great), but I’ve been having a terrible time trying to figure out an issue when using “update\_attributes”. I’m storing files on the file system rather than in a database. It seems that when “update\_attributes” is called with a new file, upload\_data= tries to copy a file that doesn’t exist, the file name of the new upload\_data. Anyway here’s the error I get: No such file or directory -public/db\_files/songs/4/Song.mp3 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1182:in `stat' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1182:in `lstat’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1160:in `stat' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1242:in `copy\_file’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:459:in `copy_file' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:383:in `cp’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1377:in `fu_each_src_dest' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1393:in `fu\_each\_src\_dest0’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1375:in `fu_each_src_dest' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:382:in `cp’ vendor/plugins/attachment\_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment\_fu.rb:154:in `copy_to_temp_file' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb:23:in `returning’ vendor/plugins/attachment\_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment\_fu.rb:152:in `copy_to_temp_file' vendor/plugins/attachment_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment_fu.rb:288:in `copy\_to\_temp\_file’ vendor/plugins/attachment\_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment\_fu.rb:265:in `temp_paths' vendor/plugins/attachment_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment_fu.rb:272:in `temp\_path=’ vendor/plugins/attachment\_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment\_fu.rb:250:in `uploaded_data=' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1672:in `attributes=’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1671:in `attributes=' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1591:in `update\_attributes’ app/controllers/songs\_controller.rb:44:in `update’ -e:4 I found some other people reporting these issues, ( [Parked at Loopia](http://beast.caboo.se/forums/2/topics/895) & [Parked at Loopia](http://beast.caboo.se/forums/2/topics/899) ). Does anyone have experience with this problem or have any good work arounds? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![osteo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@osteo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/osteo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachment-fu-update-attributes-bug/90365/2 "2007-03-28T06:21:58Z")
On 3/27/07, Mitch M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Anyway here’s the error I get: > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1393:in `fu_each_src_dest0' vendor/plugins/attachment_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment_fu.rb:265:in `update\_attributes’ > app/controllers/songs\_controller.rb:44:in `update’ > -e:4 > > I found some other people reporting these issues, ( > [Parked at Loopia](http://beast.caboo.se/forums/2/topics/895) & > [Parked at Loopia](http://beast.caboo.se/forums/2/topics/899) ). Does anyone have > experience with this problem or have any good work arounds? Thanks. If someone can write a failing test for this I can look at it. I haven’t been seeing the issue in the projects I’ve been using it in. – Rick O. [http://lighthouseapp.com](http://lighthouseapp.com) [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net) [http://mephistoblog.com](http://mephistoblog.com)