Paperclip: undefined method `to_file' for #<Paperclip::Attachment:0000> (NoMethodError)

Thomas Eisenbarth

September 19, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

to_file has been removed Show archive.org snapshot in Paperclip 3.0.1.

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Instead of using File to access Paperclip storage objects (like this: File.read(file.to_file.path)) you can use

Paperclip.io_adapters.for(file).read

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Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2012-09-19 16:50)