# LoginEngine / File\_Column Interop

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-file-column-interop/94278>\
**Category:** Engines\
**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-file-column-interop/94278 "2006-04-27T16:11:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ray\_Slakinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@Ray\_Slakinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ray_Slakinski)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-file-column-interop/94278/1 "2006-04-27T16:11:34Z")

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Hello all,

I hope someone can help me with this issue, I have the SVN file\_column  
and using LoginEngine/UserEngine with Rails 1.1.2. My issue is that I’m  
overloading the view for LoginEngine to support a file image upload as  
part of the user record and having a heck of a time doing so.

Near the bottom of my new \_edit.rhtml file I put in:

\<%= file\_field("user", "image\_url") %\>

which now displays the upload field as it should when I go to sign up a  
user. I placed in the actual LoginEngine user.rb model the  
“file\_column :image\_url” line just below " include  
LoginEngine::AuthenticatedUser" and I can see when I submit my form that  
some directory structure is created.

The last part I did was make a new signup.rhtml file with this as the  
start of my form:

```
<%= start_form_tag({:action => 'signup'}, :multipart => true) %>

```

This was to make sure the form was a multipart form for the upload.

The issue is that if I select a file for upload the form doesn’t submit,  
and no file was created. The form does submit if I have no file set to  
upload. ☹

Here is what the logs say when the transaction fails:

Processing UserController#signup (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-04-27 09:57:29)  
[POST]  
Session ID: 1263df31f64b6ed1de7d0054d571ba1c  
Parameters: {“user”=\>{“image\_url”=\>#\<File:/tmp/CGI2700.4\>,  
“password\_confirmation”=\>“test1”, “lastname”=\>“the”, “firstname”=\>“the”,  
“login”=\>“the”, “password”=\>“test1”, “email”=\>“removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”},  
“commit”=\>“Signup”, “action”=\>“signup”, “controller”=\>“user”}  
User Columns (0.014115) SHOW FIELDS FROM users  
Unable to send confirmation E-Mail:  
Transaction Error: cannot abort; there is no current transaction.

Any ideas on what else I need to do to get this all to play nice with  
each other?

Ps: The reason I added the “file\_column :image\_url” right into the  
LoginEngine user model instead of overloading it is that when I tried to  
overload it the rest of my app started to have issues everywhere I had  
“authenticated?” so I felt it just easier not to fight it and add the  
info right into LoginEngine itself, which on the surface appears to have  
taken.

- – Ray Slakinski