Question

Im trying to get the current date inside my rails model like this:

Inside Photo.rb

  Paperclip.interpolates :prefix  do |attachment, style|
      :today_date => Date.today.to_s
      "#{:today_date}/#{attachment.instance.image_file_name}"
  end 

When I send a Photo to the server from the client I get an error and the following console output on the server. This tells me that there is a problem with the “Date” function

Server Console:

 Started POST "/photos.json" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-02-20 13:47:35 -0800
 13:47:35 web.1  | 
 13:47:35 web.1  | SyntaxError 
             (/Users/AM/Documents/RailsWS/test/app/models/photo.rb:22: syntax 
               error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting keyword_end
 13:47:35 web.1  |      :today_date => Date.today.to_s
 13:47:35 web.1  |                    ^):
 13:47:35 web.1  |   app/controllers/photos_controller.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'

What am I doing wrong? How do I get the current date into this variable?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try:

Paperclip.interpolates :prefix  do |attachment, style|
  "#{Date.today.to_s}/#{attachment.instance.image_file_name}"
end