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Hi, Rails - newbie here.. I''m setting up an app and am trying to use file_column to upload a picture with an item and I''m running into several problems. (Background: I''m running Locomotive Rails under OS X 10.4.4, and using Safari) I followed the directions to add the necessary items, then found out that I had to add the item to make the form tag be a multipart

Finally i have RMagick and the file_column plugin installed, but at the time of uploading images i have trouble, i get "uninitialized constant ArtImage" error and other errors, im following the instructions on http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseFileColumn but doesnt seems to work, this its the code im using: #----view <%=

To make file_column work I have to copy my local variable back to an instance variables like this: <% for product in @products @product = product %> <div class="catalogentry"> <%= image_tag url_for_file_column(''product'', ''image_url'') %></p> This is needed because file_column specifically looks for the instance

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

1) installation is not as smooth as some other plug-ins. If you follow the instructions on http://www.kanthak.net/opensource/file_column/ it makes a directory called trunk instead of file_column. You have to manually rename it to file_column. I guess this is a minor annoyance but it gives me the feeling that things aren''t quite like other plugins. 2) I get this error: undefined

Hello, I''m using file_column to save my users images. It''s all OK, but I want to prevent one user from accessing other user''s image. Is it possible, as the image is saved in the file system ?? Thanks Parra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I wasn''t sure where to email this request, so I am hoping the author of file_column actually sees this. I was wondering if there were any plans to allow some configurability in the file_column plugin. By configurability I mean allowing the developer to define which table column is used as the unique identifier when creating image folders. Right now it seems like it uses the ID of the

I''ve been fighting with myself over this for the past week, and would like to hear some others'' thoughts on the subject. I essentially have the following models in place: class Item < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :images end class Image < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :item file_column :filename end In my view, I have javascript that basically creates N

Hi, I downloaded FileColumn plugin and love the concept. But when I tried the example listed on the plugin web site, I got the following error: NoMethodError in Entry#new undefined method `file_column'' for Entry:Class My environement is Red Hat linux 9.0 with mysql 4.1. I installed file_column under vendor/plugins. If I run "ls", I get the following directories:

Dear all, file_column now works fine with object.save i.e., it updates my database field with the correct image file name and places the image file into the correct public folder. However, I cannot get file_column to work the same way with object.update when trying to change image. It only updates my field with the image file name. However, the new image is not copied into the correct

The file column plug-in is great, but there is a problem with it. Well, two... But the other is well documented now. :^) Consider a time when you''ve created a CMS for a client and it''s been in use for over a year. Say 1500+ images have been uploaded so far. Now the client comes back with a simple request... ''Can you change the thumbnail size to 80/90, rather than

Hi, I''m trying to set up file_column to upload attachments for emails. My view has <td align="left"><%= file_column_field ''to_do'', ''attachment'' %></td> and the attachment_temp hidden field is generated. When I inspect tthe params on saving the form the attachment_temp param is always an empty string. Also, when I was

I''m running file_column 0.3.1, and having a few problems... which are: - Uploading a 378x567 jpg, and using :magick => {:geometry => "100x100" }, my image ends up being 67x100 ? Is there a way to "force" the image to be the size you specify ? - My view has a drop-down of sizes, and I''m trying to pass in this size into :magick =>

hello, how to generate new image if i do add new version? For example, I add version :small => { :size => "320x240" } . How to tell file_column to generate new image version if image is allready uploaded ? Thank you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is there a way using the file_column plugin to enforce a certain content type based on regex (i.ie, /^image/) and/or filesize (150k) ? thanks adam

Hi all, I''m trying to use file_column to upload a picture but I''m getting the following error: "cannot convert nil into String" caused by the last line in FileColumnHelper::url_for_file_column(object_name, method) url << object.send("#{method}_relative_path") I don''t have any images uploaded for existing entries so does this not

I''m trying to use file_column as a Rails plugin. Of course I read the doc (from Sebastian, this maillist) and little bit of source (as good as I, newbie, could understand it).. But I''m not able to implement it in my app.. I''m a totally newbie with less software development experience. I get the file_column_field in my view with simply invoking the helper... (:multipart

Hi all, i am using file_column to upload 3 images from the same form, they are all different names and DOM IDs so there isn''t a problem with the multiple upload. The problem is when i try to upload a file (or 2, or 3) sometimes it works, but sometimes i get this in the log file: "bar_image"=>{"file_temp"=>"",

Hello, I have been trying for some time to get a file to upload using the file_column plugin. My code is here: http://pastie.caboo.se/7304 But my code is not the issue. I cannot even pass the unit test that come with the file_column plugin. If I run ruby file_column_test.rb i get: 1) Error: test_store_dir_callback(FileColumnTest): TypeError: can''t convert Fixnum into String

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, I hope someone can help me with this issue, I have the SVN file_column and using LoginEngine/UserEngine with Rails 1.1.2. My issue is that I''m overloading the view for LoginEngine to support a file image upload as part of the user record and having a heck of a time doing so. Near the bottom of my new _edit.rhtml