# Ckeditor "Browse Server"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ckeditor-browse-server/189421>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 31, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ckeditor-browse-server/189421 "2010-05-31T17:48:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nu2rails)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ckeditor-browse-server/189421/1 "2010-05-31T17:48:26Z")

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I started with the ckeditor rails demo and everything worked  
beautifully.

Then I deployed a couple of sites using a heavily customized “Easy”  
toolbar and everything works great. In these instances I completely  
disable any file upload or management capability.

Next, I implemented the “Full” version for another project so that I  
could have the full functionality of the image uploads, etc. I  
installed the paperclip bundle, manually created my assets/pictures  
folder and manually copied the assets table from the demo app.

Everything works beautifully in the upload department. But when you  
click “Browse Server” it throws an application routing error.

var upload\_path = “\<%=  
new\_attachment\_path\_with\_session\_information(:image) %\>”

which is in the images.html.erb

After a couple of hours of unsuccessfully trying to correct the  
configuration, and then attempting to disable the button altogether, I  
resorted to crude hackery and simply overwrote all of my ckeditor  
folders with the perfectly functioning folders from the demo version.

I still got the same error. So I tried creating a symlink but that did  
not help either. I also check my yaml file and it is exactly the same as  
in the demo.

Can anyone help? I would be happy if I could just hide the Browse  
Server button. I obviously can’t go into production with this mess.

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**Author:** ![nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nu2rails)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ckeditor-browse-server/189421/2 "2010-05-31T21:08:25Z")

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Ned Pearson wrote:

> I started with the ckeditor rails demo and everything worked  
> beautifully.
> 
> Then I deployed a couple of sites using a heavily customized “Easy”  
> toolbar and everything works great. In these instances I completely  
> disable any file upload or management capability.
> 
> Next, I implemented the “Full” version for another project so that I  
> could have the full functionality of the image uploads, etc. I  
> installed the paperclip bundle, manually created my assets/pictures  
> folder and manually copied the assets table from the demo app.
> 
> Everything works beautifully in the upload department. But when you  
> click “Browse Server” it throws an application routing error.
> 
> var upload\_path = “\<%=  
> new\_attachment\_path\_with\_session\_information(:image) %\>”
> 
> which is in the images.html.erb
> 
> After a couple of hours of unsuccessfully trying to correct the  
> configuration, and then attempting to disable the button altogether, I  
> resorted to crude hackery and simply overwrote all of my ckeditor  
> folders with the perfectly functioning folders from the demo version.
> 
> I still got the same error. So I tried creating a symlink but that did  
> not help either. I also check my yaml file and it is exactly the same as  
> in the demo.
> 
> Can anyone help? I would be happy if I could just hide the Browse  
> Server button. I obviously can’t go into production with this mess.

Solved my own problem.

After you create the assets table, and the assets/pictures directory you  
have to copy three .rb files from “examples/attachment\_fu” into your  
application’s app/models folder.

Once you’ve done that and bumped your server, the file browser and full  
asset managment capability works.

Perhaps, this post will contribute to needed documentation for others  
rails users using ckeditor.

Ned

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**Author:** ![nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@nu2rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nu2rails)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ckeditor-browse-server/189421/3 "2010-06-12T03:26:23Z")

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That helped but didn’t completely solve my problem (but it saved  
plenty of time so thanks!)

If you’re running Rails pre 2.3, you’ll have to change :key to  
:session\_key in your ckeditor\_helper.rb file.