I am not able to get this to work on Windows, and the problem has been documented with a fix here, but I can''t get the fix to work, either. Ok, I admit it: I am a newbie with rails! here is the problem''s fix: You can fix your file_column for now by replacing the get_content_type method in lib/file_column.rb with this version: def get_content_type(fallback=nil) content_type end But when I try this, I get: undefined local variable or method `content_type'' for #<FileColumn::TempUploadedFile:0x370f9a8> Obviously, I am doing something wrong... any help would be appreciated.