Rails - Jun 2006 - file_column plugin. Storing files outside RAILS_ROOT

I also posted this on Rails Engines forum. Sorry for the double post.

I am trying to configure file_column plugin so that it stores the images 
in a directory completely outside of RAILS_ROOT.
I have no problems in storing the files by setting :root_path option. 
But I can''t get to display these images using  
''url_for_file_column''.
What I get instead of the image is simply the filename.
Is this a bug in the plugin or am I not using it properly?

Thanks in advance,
Cagan

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Can you get it working when the image is inside the rails root? I''ve
never used the plugin (yet), but my guess is that this could be a good
indicator whether you''ve been doing something wrong or the plugin just
can''t handle images being stored anywhere else.
-Nathan

On 28/06/06, cagan senturk <cs327@teknolabs.com>
wrote:
> I also posted this on Rails Engines forum. Sorry for the double post.
>
> I am trying to configure file_column plugin so that it stores the images
> in a directory completely outside of RAILS_ROOT.
> I have no problems in storing the files by setting :root_path option.
> But I can''t get to display these images using  
''url_for_file_column''.
> What I get instead of the image is simply the filename.
> Is this a bug in the plugin or am I not using it properly?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Cagan
>
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unknown wrote:
> Can you get it working when the image is inside the rails root?
I''ve
> never used the plugin (yet), but my guess is that this could be a good
> indicator whether you''ve been doing something wrong or the plugin
just
> can''t handle images being stored anywhere else.
> -Nathan
Hi Nathan,
yes it works when the image is inside the rails root.
Thanks,
Cagan

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>
> > I have no problems in storing the files by setting :root_path option.
>

I had a similar issue using the :store_dir.  I updated the
url_for_file_column method to use the :store_dir option defined in the
class.  I sent it to the author of file_plugin as well as posting the
modification to:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseFileColumn

You''ll need to modify this further to use the :root_path setting.

It may not be the ideal fix, but found that it worked for what I needed.
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Andrew Stone wrote:
>>
>> > I have no problems in storing the files by setting :root_path
option.
>>
> 
> 
> I had a similar issue using the :store_dir.  I updated the
> url_for_file_column method to use the :store_dir option defined in the
> class.  I sent it to the author of file_plugin as well as posting the
> modification to:
> 
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseFileColumn
> 
> You''ll need to modify this further to use the :root_path setting.
> 
> It may not be the ideal fix, but found that it worked for what I needed.
I commented out the original method and replaced it with your method in 
file_method_helper.rb.
I get a ''NoMethodError undefined method
`/opt/wwz/user/image_path'' for
#<User:0x22df05c>''
on the following line:
return object.send(options[:store_dir]) << relative_path


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just use a symbolic link inside rails...

cagan senturk schrieb:
> Andrew Stone wrote:
>   
>>>> I have no problems in storing the files by setting :root_path
option.
>>>>         
>> I had a similar issue using the :store_dir.  I updated the
>> url_for_file_column method to use the :store_dir option defined in the
>> class.  I sent it to the author of file_plugin as well as posting the
>> modification to:
>>
>> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseFileColumn
>>
>> You''ll need to modify this further to use the :root_path
setting.
>>
>> It may not be the ideal fix, but found that it worked for what I
needed.
>>     
>
> I commented out the original method and replaced it with your method in 
> file_method_helper.rb.
> I get a ''NoMethodError undefined method
`/opt/wwz/user/image_path'' for
> #<User:0x22df05c>''
> on the following line:
> return object.send(options[:store_dir]) << relative_path
>
>
>

Pete wrote:
> just use a symbolic link inside rails...
> 
> cagan senturk schrieb:
yes that''s exactly what I ended up doing at the end...
Thanks,
Cagan

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