Rails - Dec 2010 - fork paperclip validations depending on associated model

Hi all,

I have a project that is using paperclip to upload and attach files to
associated models.  The schema is thus:

Class Project
  has_many :attached_files
  # I want to attach images only (jpg|png|etc) to projects
end

Class Page
  has_many :attached_files
  # I want to attach linked documents (doc|pdf|etc) to pages
end

Class Attachedfile
  has attached_file :image
  has attached_file :file
end

Right now, I have validations for Project:

validates_attachment_presence :image,
    :message      => ''There was no file uploaded!''
validates_attachment_thumbnails :image,
  :message      => ''The file you uploaded does not seem to be a
valid
image.''
etc...

And now I want to add validations for files attached to pages.  Only,
how do I go about only calling the validations for files on Pages, while
only calling validations for Images on Projects?  ie. if I add
validations for files on pages it will invalidate the records when I am
saving images on projects.


Does that make sense?  The way I know I could work around this is to
have two models: AttachedFile and AttachedImage, but that seems not
necessary and would be an extra database table.

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