attachment_fu and with_image on existing entries

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Hi everyone,

I’m just upgrading an app from acts_as_attachment to attachment_fu and have run into an issue using the with_image method on existing attachment records.

It worked fine in acts_as_attachment but in attachment_fu it simply does not work at all, ruby actually hangs. It’s not too surprising really, since internally a blank string has been passed to Magick::Image.read instead of an actual file to load. The with_image method assumes that a temporary file is present, which it would be when the uploaded data has just been assigned, but not when working with a previously saved record.

A little patch to the plugin can fix it but it doesn’t seem like the best solution:

 def with_image(&block)
    # Write out the temporary data if it is not present
    if temp_data.nil?
      self.temp_data = current_data
    end
   
    self.class.with_image(temp_path, &block)
  end

Anybody else had this problem?

-Jonathan.