Copy a Paperclip attachment to another record

Just assign the existing attachment to another record:

new_photo = Photo.new
new_photo.image = old_photo.image

Paperclip will duplicate the file when saving.

To use this in forms, pimp your attachment container like this:

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_attached_file :image
  
  attr_accessor :copy_of

  def image_url
    if copy_of
      copy_of.url
    else
      image.url
    end
  end
end

And in the controller do:

new_photo = Photo.new(:copy_of => old_photo)

Tobias Kraze

makandra.de

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Last edit

2010-09-09

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2010-08-24 17:30)