Save image from URL by paperclip
In Paperclip 3.1.4 it's become even simpler.
def picture_from_url(url)
self.picture = URI.parse(url)
end
This is slightly better than open(url). Because with open(url) you're going to get "stringio.txt" as the filename. With the above you're going to get a proper name of the file based on the URL. i.e.
self.picture = URI.parse("http://something.com/blah/avatar.png")
self.picture_file_name # => "avatar.png"
self.picture_content_type # => "image/png"
Here is a simple way:
require "open-uri"
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_attached_file :picture
def picture_from_url(url)
self.picture = open(url)
end
end
Then simply :
user.picture_from_url "http://www.google.com/images/logos/ps_logo2.png"
It didn't work for me until I used "open" for parsed URI. once I added "open" it worked!
def picture_from_url(url)
self.picture = URI.parse(url).open
end
My paperclip version is 4.2.1
Before open it wouldn't detect the content type right, because it wasn't a file. It would say image_content_type: "binary/octet-stream", and even if I override it with the right content type it wouldn't work.
First download the image with the curb
gem to a TempFile
and then simply assign the tempfile object and save your model.