Back to some rails stuff. Here is a little tip that helped me out with reading in the file that was being uploaded before I saved the record. I was doing this because I wanted to validate the data in the file before I save the record. Here is what I did:
class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base has_attachment :some_file def validate file = self.some_file.to_file(:original) data = File.read(file) # Do some validation on data errors.add_to_base "File format invalid" if data.nil? end end
Tags: original file, paperclip, rails, upload
