Question

It looks like Paperclip doesn’t honor the ActiveRecord dirty model. How do I detect the change in after_save callback.

class User

  has_attachment :avatar    
  after_save :do_something

  def do_something
    if name_changed?
      #
    end

    # How to determine avatar was changed?
    #if avatar_changed?
    #  #
    #end

  end
end

Note

I know I can detect the change in before_save callback using avatar.dirty? call, but the dirty flag is set to false after save.

I can add a processor, but I need to perform my actions after the model data is saved.

Answer 1

You could try accessing the _changed? method for one of the attributes:

if avatar_updated_at_changed?
  # do something
end