Paperclip is making me crazy

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seems pretty simple, my model…

has_attached_file :pic_1, :styles => { :thumb => “120x90” },
:url => “/:attachment/:id_:style.:extension”,
:path => “:rails_root/public/system/:attachment/:id_:style.:extension”

my view…

<% form_tag(:action => ‘create’, :html => { :multipart => true }) do -%>
Image
<%= file_field ‘ad’, ‘pic_1’ %>
<%= submit_tag ’ Save ', :class => ‘button’ %>

and I save and the development.log shows expected…
Processing Admin::AdsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-02-13
17:49:15) [POST]
Parameters: {“html”=>{“multipart”=>“true”}, “commit”=>" Save “,
“ad”=>{“salesprogram_id”=>“3”, “pic_1”=>“DSC01760.JPG”,
“active”=>“true”}, “action”=>“create”, “authenticity_token”=>”-",
“controller”=>“admin/ads”}

But the SQL Insert for pic_1_file_name, pic_1_file_size,
pic_1_content_type and pic_1_updated_at are all NULL

and I’ve googled and flailed and googled and flailed but I cannot make
this work.

Can anyone toss me a bone here?

Craig

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Craig W. wrote:

seems pretty simple, my model…

has_attached_file :pic_1, :styles => { :thumb => “120x90” },
:url => “/:attachment/:id_:style.:extension”,
:path => “:rails_root/public/system/:attachment/:id_:style.:extension”

my view…

<% form_tag(:action => ‘create’, :html => { :multipart => true }) do -%>
Image
<%= file_field ‘ad’, ‘pic_1’ %>
<%= submit_tag ’ Save ', :class => ‘button’ %>

and I save and the development.log shows expected…
Processing Admin::AdsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-02-13
17:49:15) [POST]
Parameters: {“html”=>{“multipart”=>“true”}, “commit”=>" Save “,
“ad”=>{“salesprogram_id”=>“3”, “pic_1”=>“DSC01760.JPG”,
“active”=>“true”}, “action”=>“create”, “authenticity_token”=>”-",
“controller”=>“admin/ads”}

But the SQL Insert for pic_1_file_name, pic_1_file_size,
pic_1_content_type and pic_1_updated_at are all NULL

and I’ve googled and flailed and googled and flailed but I cannot make
this work.

Can anyone toss me a bone here?

Craig

Parameters: {“html”=>{“multipart”=>“true”}, “commit”=>" Save ",

“ad”=>{“salesprogram_id”=>“3”, “pic_1”=>“DSC01760.JPG”,
“active”=>“true”}, “action”=>“create”, “authenticity_token”=>“-”,
“controller”=>“admin/ads”} actually is not what you want to see in the params hash; the value at “pic_1” should be a File object…

:html isn’t an option form_tag understands; use use :multipart => true
for your options hash.

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On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 02:53 +0100, Paul H. wrote:

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Parameters: {“html”=>{“multipart”=>“true”}, “commit”=>" Save ",

“ad”=>{“salesprogram_id”=>“3”, “pic_1”=>“DSC01760.JPG”,
“active”=>“true”}, “action”=>“create”, “authenticity_token”=>“-”,
“controller”=>“admin/ads”} actually is not what you want to see in the params hash; the value at “pic_1” should be a File object…

:html isn’t an option form_tag understands; use use :multipart => true
for your options hash.
ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper

that’s what I get for trying to follow the examples supplied by the
project…I actually caught it before I read your e-mail and indeed, you
were right on the mark. The last time I did picture uploads, etc. was
with Rails 1.2 & rmagick and everyone says how much better paperclip is
which appears to be the case but I kept looking at the model code
without ever suspecting that their sample code had the multipart => true
that simply didn’t work.

Thanks

Craig

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