Hi, I’m just trying out Sebastian’s file_upload plugin, but I’m having
problems - bound to be my fault! I can’t search gmane at the moment for
examples that I’m sure have been recently posted
I have a MySQL table “scripts” with a field "filename varchar(255) not
null, and a basic scaffold’d set of files for model “Script”. I’ve
installed file_upload using “script/plugin install”, I think it caught
rev 58.
In app/models/script.rb I’ve added “file_column :filename”, and in
app/views/scripts/_form.rhtml I’ve changed the generated text_field into
a file_column_field - the form looks fine, I get an Browse button. I can
use the Browse button to select a file … but …
When I try to submit the form, I get a crash :
TypeError in Scripts#create
Do not know how to handle a string with value ‘jim.jpg’ that was passed
to a file_column. Check if the form’s encoding has been set to
‘multipart/form-data’.
I guess I must have missed a trick somewhere else. There are no records
in the table (to be expected, but worth checking)
Where should I be looking next to figure this out?
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:58:56AM -0000, Mikkel B. wrote:
For once thre’s acutally a sane error message:
Check if the form’s encoding has been set to ‘multipart/form-data’.
Did you check that?
Initially no - I had incorrectly assumed that declaring file_column
would have fixed up the form definition, but I guess it can’t override
what was in the template …
So, I tried to set :multipart => true in the new.rhtml, and still had
problems. A trawl through the docs revealed my error - where the
scaffold had created a call to start_form_tag with only one parameter,
I’d just added the :multipart to the end … whereas the extended form
only works for me when the whole thing is fully bracketed :-
