Migrations to load photos with attachment_fu?

Rails
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I’ve been studying the web this morning and trying to find examples
where someone has imported photo ‘test data’ using attachment_fu?
I’ve tried this in many was using a traditional data migration like
I’ve done hundreds of times and nothing comes in? Attachment_fu put a
record to the database, but there is so supporting file behind it.
I enclose what my migration looks like for one record.

newrecord = Vendphoto.create(
:vendor_id => ‘1’,
:title => ‘Add Test Vendphoto 1’,
:content_type => ‘image/jpeg’,
:size => ‘38414’,
:width => ‘230’,
:height => ‘200’,
:geo_lat => ‘27.9686’,
:geo_long => ‘-97.0943’,
:filename => ‘KathyTest.jpg’)
newrecord.save!
I ‘presumed’ some of this information by manually adding a photo and
then looking at the MySQL record that was created. I experimented
putting the photo in question ‘KathyTest.jpg’ in the \public\images
and many other places. I load the ‘Vendphoto’ record in the database
BUT the actual photo doesn’t exist in my \Public\Images\Vendphoto (as
if I had done this manuall).
Thank you,
Kathy
[email protected]

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On 10-Nov-07, at 9:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:

I’ve been studying the web this morning and trying to find examples
where someone has imported photo ‘test data’ using attachment_fu?
I’ve tried this in many was using a traditional data migration like
I’ve done hundreds of times and nothing comes in? Attachment_fu put a
record to the database, but there is so supporting file behind it.
I enclose what my migration looks like for one record.

here’s an example of loading images in a migration.

 filename = "#{some_path}some_file.gif"
 image = Image.create(:uploaded_data =>

ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(filename, ‘image/gif’))

the trick is using the ActionController:TestUploadFile to simulate a
file upload request.

Cheers,
Jodi

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Jodi,
I’m so excited about having the ability to load photos with
migrations! Thank you for responding. I took your code and modified my
original routine as shown:

def self.up
down
filename = “#{‘c:/temp/’}MollyTest.gif”
newrecord = Ephoto.create(
:uploaded_data =>
ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(filename, ‘image/gif’),
:eitem_id => ‘1’,
:title => ‘Add Test Ephoto 1’,
:size => ‘1536’,
:width => ‘100’,
:height => ‘69’,
:geo_lat => ‘27.9686’,
:geo_long => ‘-97.0943’)
newrecord.save!
end

The problem is a I get a "rake aborted! uninitialized constant
ActionController::TestUploadedFile " message when I try to run the
migration. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Kathleen

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I just put this here since couldn’t find it anywhere else on the net:

require “action_controller/test_process”

def self.up
…
end

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test