Ruby on Rails

On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Monserrat Foster <monsefoster@gmail.com> wrote:

> I read this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146848/generating-a-unique-file-path-with-polymorphic-paperclip
>
> and it could work, but I have no idea how to do have a reference in your model to user table (say user_id), you can do sth like that attachment.instance.user_id
>
> Could someone please give me an example?
>
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 5:32:00 PM UTC-4:30, Monserrat Foster wrote:
> lol. I meant, If i replace self.inventory.instance_write(:inventory_file_name, "#{:current_user}#{extension}") for
> self.inventory.instance_write(:inventory_file_name, "#{SecureRandom.hex(16)}#{extension}")
> the error disappears but, the file_name doesn't change. it seems to be saving as :rails_root/tmp/uploaded_files/inventories/:basename_.:extension ignoring the self.inventory.instance_write(:inventory_file_name, "#{SecureRandom.hex(16)}#{extension}") line

Are you also removing the assignment to current_user when you do that? Because that's where the error comes from.

What is inventory_file_name? Why do you expect that setting it will actually set the file name?


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