Question

I have a client who wants to bulk-upload photo files to her existing Ruby on Rails application that I developed. I’ve scratched together code and scripts to unzip a zip file and rename all included files sequentially:

photo0001.png, photo0002.png etc…

However, I’m stuck on how to write a model or method to go through and assign each photo to a new instance, as paperclip defines the following:

class Picture
 has_attached_file :photo

So I’m looking for a way to do something like this:

for i in 1..5
   Picture.create(:caption => "Test", :photo => "photo/photo000#{i}.png")
   `rm photo/photo000#{i}.png`
end

I’m sure there’s more to it than that, but that’s the basic idea…

Answer 1

I have a rake task for uploading photos, the meat of it looks like this:

Dir.glob(photo_path).entries.each do |e|
  puts "Uploading #{e}"
  Picture.create!(:photo => File.open(e))
end

I don’t know if this helps, but it should hopefully point you in the right direction.