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It took me a while to figure this out and I don''t see any wiki pages for attachment_fu so I figure I would just post this here. I didn''t like the way attachment_fu by default creates directories under a given directory for a specific class e.g. item_image/1/img_1.jpg item_image/1/img_1_thumb.jpg item_image/2/img_2.jpg item_image/2/img_2_thumb.jpg item_image/3/img_3.jpg item_image/3/img_3_thumb.jpg After a while you end up with ton of directories under the item_image directory. Instead I wanted the images to be grouped by the item object which has_...

...file system and stores the file name in a database table is awsome. But while I try to get the image by passing its ID, surprisingly it returns the full absolute path rather than the image name! I would like to give a littel more description about the problem. There are two tables:- 1) items and 2)item_images In the first table only item name and description is stored while in the second table; the image name is stored along with the item_id from the first table. I am using the following code to access the image from database itm = ItemImage.find_by_item_id(id).image # image is the column for image...