Question

I am using Heroku for my production environment so I need to load the paperclip files into different directories.

For development I want it to continue in the current /system default, and in production I want to pass the :path variable to a /tmp directory per Heroku.

How do I do this? Am guessing maybe set something in the environments/production.rb file as a variable for the :path but I’d like to see explicitly how to do it the right way.

Thanks.

Here is a snippet from my controller to create the model after passing the file through a multipart form:

def create
    @contact = Contact.create(params[:contact])

     unless @contact.vcard.path.blank?

           paperclip_vcard = File.new(@contact.vcard.path) 

Answer 1

In the model holding the attached file there’s a method you say it holds that file and some options, etc. In that method you can pass the :path parameter that will tell it where to save it.

Now is just a matter of checking ENV['RAILS_ENV'] to find out what environment you are and set the path accordingly.