Paperclip saving/retrieving files above public/

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Hello all,

I'm quite baffled/agitated by this. I'm using paperclip to allow upload of images to my application. This is working fine, it's saving the the images exactly where its supposed to and it's saving the image objects as its supposed to.

The problem is that I can't display these images in the browser. I've had this issue in a couple other applications I've made and just got around it by having paperclip save to the public folder and pull from there to display the desired image. But I feel as though I should get this sorted out.

So here goes:

My image model (paperclip)

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Unless you've got an ImagesController (not shown here), the :url argument you're using is the problem. Files in the public directory are served as-is, so yours will be in / uploaded/:attachable_type/:attachable_id/:id_:style.:extension

--Matt Jones

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Ok that makes sense. Thank you.

Though I'm still not getting this to work. Where do I go from here?

I created the images_controller and created routes for them. I looked into this and saw some one else doing this in their controller to handle 'documents' (pdfs, jpgs, pngs, etc)

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Anyone have anything they can add? Any help at this point would be appreciated.

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Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Please I'm still desperate for an answer

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why don't you use the standard and simple way ?

this is what I have in my app :

model Product has_attached_file :product_image, :styles => { :left => '225>x238>', :big => '600x600>'}

# product_image_file_name :string(255) # product_image_content_type :string(255) # product_image_file_size :integer(4) # product_image_updated_at :date time

uploads are saved in /public/system/product_images/:id/big/* /public/ system/product_images/:id/left/* /public/system/product_images/:id/ original/*

I display the pictures with the following url :: @product.product_image.url(:left) @product.product_image.url(:big) @product.product_image.url

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Try adding "public" to your path: :path => ":rails_root/public/ uploaded/:attachable_type/:attachable_id/:id_:style.:extension "

Then you can just link directly to it: <img src="/uploaded/:attachable_type/:id/:id_:style.:extension" />

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For those of you who recommend the public folder, the only problem with that for me and I'm sure others is that we may want some uploads to be private, and prevent users from simply browsing the public directory on our webapps to look at every-bodies uploads. By using our own custom folders we can prevent this with very little code.

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By correctly configuring your server, you can prevent this without any code. “Options -Indexes” on Apache, “autoindex off” in nginx.

–Matt Jones