Comments on: Attaching local or remote files to Paperclip and Milton Models in Rails (Mocking content_type and original_filename in a Tempfile)

By: Trey

Trey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:11:59 +0000

Thanks for posting this Corey. Ran into a situation where I needed to fetch and process remote images from Facebook with Paperclip and this helped me out tremendously.

By: SimonC

SimonC — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:21:27 +0000

Thanks very much for this – I didn’t have a problem with #original_filename and #content_type being missing (they seem to be present for me even with manually created Tempfiles), but I was wrestling with forcing a nice filename* for the upload without rolling my own temp file solution; I hadn’t realised it was as simple as overriding the #original_filename method.

By: Cory O'Daniel

Cory O'Daniel — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:59:47 +0000

Not sure it works exactly… using the ‘open’ method you would still be missing the ‘original_filename’ method…

By: Maximilian Schulz

Maximilian Schulz — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:32:55 +0000

I am sorry, but there is a solution which is far more easy than yours:

require ‘open-uri’
@imported_user.images.create(:file => open(url_to_image))

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:09:37 +0000

Thanks, needed this for importing images for products in Spree.

By: barryezl

barryezl — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:35:24 +0000

Thanks, you just saved me a great deal of hair-pulling. It’s working great with Paperclip.