Topic: Paperclip not saving any images
Hey everyone,
I was hoping this would've been a 5 minute task, but again, my database is not getting the values, this time from paperclip.
I tried this on a test app on my Mac, and it works fine. Go figure! 
The only difference is on My Mac I'm just using Mongrel, and SQLite for my DB. The main app I have on Ubuntu LTS 8.04 LTS, running on Apache2, mod_rails 2.2.5, with MySQL 5 for my DB.
I got Paperclip installed, generated the paperclip, and called it avatar, of which it associates to the User model.
In the User model I added:
has_attached_file :avatar, :url => "/avatars/users/:id/:basename.:extension", :path => ":rails_root/public/avatars/users/:id/:basename.:extension"
# Added the following lines to attr_accessible
attr_accessible [everything else], :avatar_file_name, :avatar_content_type, :avatar_file_size, :avatar_updated_atThen in my form for new/update user, I have:
<% form_for @user, :html => { :multipart => true } do |f| %>
<%= f.error_messages %>
<%= image_tag @user.avatar.url, :width => "150px", :height => "150px" %>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First Name</td>
<td><%= f.text_field :first %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Last Name</td>
<td><%= f.text_field :last %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Login</td>
<td><%= f.text_field :login %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E-mail Address</td>
<td><%= f.text_field :email %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upload an avatar</td>
<td><%= f.file_field :avatar %>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td><%= f.password_field :password %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confirm Password</td>
<td><%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %></td>
</tr>
<% if admin? %>
<tr>
<td>Administrator Role</td>
<td><%= f.text_field :admin %></td>
</tr>
<% else %>
<% end %>
</table>
<p><%= f.submit 'Update Account' %></p>Save everything, update the current user in this case, and no go. I look in my Users table in my DB, with a good ol' "select * from users where id = 1;", and all those fields are NULL as I expected.
Ok, so now I go look in log/development.log. I see:
Processing UsersController#update (for 70.89.247.75 at 2009-11-16 17:32:15) [PUT]
Parameters: {"user"=>{"password_confirmation"=>"", "admin"=>"1", "last"=>"Brinkerhoff", "first"=>"Justin", "avatar"=>#<File:/tmp/RackMultipart.18774.1>, "password"=>"", "login"=>"justin", "email"=>"justinbrinkerhoff@gmail.com"}, "commit"=>"Update Account", "authenticity_token"=>"9z5P+7wcmujDCYkcl0M5OjuCPQPnpUF+1mYp2aBVIew=", "id"=>"1"}
User Columns (77.4ms) SHOW FIELDS FROM `users`
User Load (84.0ms) SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = 1)
WARNING: Can't mass-assign these protected attributes: avatar
SQL (75.5ms) BEGIN
User Exists (77.5ms) SELECT `users`.id FROM `users` WHERE (LOWER(`users`.`login`) = BINARY 'justin' AND `users`.id <> 1) LIMIT 1
User Exists (82.1ms) SELECT `users`.id FROM `users` WHERE (LOWER(`users`.`email`) = BINARY 'justinbrinkerhoff@gmail.com' AND `users`.id <> 1) LIMIT 1
[paperclip] Saving attachments.
SQL (87.5ms) COMMIT
Redirected to http://iloveorganic.co.uk:3000/users/1/edit
Completed in 628ms (DB: 638) | 302 Found [http://iloveorganic.co.uk/users/1]
SQL (79.6ms) SET NAMES 'utf8'
SQL (76.3ms) SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0So it appears that Paperclip is not processing the uploads properly, or something. I've tried searching around for a solution, but couldn't quite find anything helpful for this strange issue...
Has anyone came across this in the past?
If anyone has some good insight on this, I'd be much appreciative. 
Last edited by jmbrink26 (2009-11-16 22:37:45)
