Setting up Fleximage

Hello!

I’ve been trying today to setup fleximage to handle photo uploads to a
RoR application by following the tutorial that is provided
(GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub)

Originally, I just dropped in all of the sample code that they provided,
which I copied below this question.

  • When I tried to access “new” to upload a new photo, I received an
    error of “Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 – if you
    really wanted the id of nil, use object_id”, which I understood to be
    caused by the fact that I was using @photo without initializing it in
    the controller.

  • I added @photo = Photo.new to the controller for “new” but then it
    returned that it could not find the table Photo.

  • I created a new migration for a photo table, including only the fields
    for name and author, which are also requested in the provided “new”
    view.

  • Now, it just returns the error “undefined method `photos_path’ for
    #ActionView::Base:0x230ee70

Since I’m incredibly new to fleximage, I’m not exactly sure if I’m going
in the wrong direction with my troubleshooting, if a table even needed
to be created for the photos or what my next step should be.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it. :slight_smile:

Model (photo.rb)
class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_fleximage :image_directory => ‘public/images/uploaded_photos’
end

Controller (photos_controller.rb)
class PhotosController < ApplicationController

def new

end

def create
@photo = Photo.new(params[:photo])
if @photo.save
redirect_to photo_url(@photo)
else
flash[:notice] = ‘Your photo did not pass validation!’
render :action => ‘new’
end
end

end

View (new.html.erb)
<% form_for @photo, :html => { :multipart => true } do |f| %>

Name
<%= f.text_field :name %>

Author
<%= f.text_field :author %>

Upload Image
<%= f.file_field :image_file %>
or URL: <%= f.text_field :image_file_url %>

<%= f.submit "Create" %>

<% end %>

Hi!
I am sorry to hear your difficulties with the tutorial. I am a
beginner in
this group so I this you need to pose your question to someone who
really
knows what about ROR.
Good luck!

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Rob Scott <

Hi,

In your view (new.html.erb) file

This line <% form_for @photo, :html => { :multipart => true } do |f|
%> should be like below

<% form_for @photo, :url=>{:action=>‘ACTIONNAME’, }, :html =>
{ :multipart => true } do |f| %>

i.e give more argument :url=>{} to form_for

To overcome “undefined method `photos_path’ for #<ActionView::Base:
0x230ee70>”