Comments on: File versioning in Ruby on Rails with Paperclip & acts_as_versioned

By: Will Koehler

Will Koehler — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:11:40 +0000

There’s a new option that tells paperclip to preserve old attachments:

https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/65e8d4f6de50732d8e1b
https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/issues/60

Simple to use:

has_attached_file => :attachment,
:styles => { :thumb => 100×100! },
:preserve_files => true

It’s not document yet and took some digging to find so I wanted to share it here.

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:41:44 +0000

Hey Brett, The patch hasn't been updated since then. My change where put together in this commit. Check it out, you might apply the same changes to the latestversion of paperclip. :)

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:51:41 +0000

How do you actually show the image of a previous version? Doing “image_tag(version.photo.photo(:thumb))” always shows the most recent version. thanks

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:38:39 +0000

Great post! Is this Rails 3 friendly. Also, has this been updated with all the latest paper_clip updates?

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:54:35 +0000

Check the line 5 of the code sample above.

:keep_old_files => :version_condition_met?

By: Imtiaz Ahmed

Imtiaz Ahmed — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:35:11 +0000

How do you use this

set the option keep_old_files to true when a new version get saved
Where do we update the keeps_old_file

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:29:45 +0000

Hey Andy,

that’s great. Happy to know it helped you.

Cheers

By: andy

andy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:25:15 +0000

Hi Phillipe,

I pull your changes into my fork of paperclip and pushed it to gemcutter as “paperclip_with_versions”

“http://gemcutter.org/gems/paperclip_with_versions”

Don’t mean to step on your toes here, but we needed this gem’d for our project mgmt.

I used your example and got this working with acts-as-audited.

Thanks

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:14:50 +0000

Hey Andy, I requested a pull back into Paperclip a while ago. I gonna request again. I also saw this Paperclip fork while working on mine – I guess this comment just stayed in my mind. :)

By: andy

andy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:51:07 +0000

also, have you seen this Paperclip fork?

“http://github.com/alainravet/paperclip/commit/0943fa3a82447329ebaff4ae217a77fe8236dadb”

he does the same feature, differently – not sure which approach is better

oddly, you both added the same comment to ‘lib/paperclip.rb’ – how did that happen?