Paperclip: How to store a picture in a Rails console?

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mlzboy picture mlzboy · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

I tried storing a local image in a rails console.

Because I have many pictures in my local storage (I use crawler to download tons of pictures), I want to store them into a database, with the benefit of paperclip to do some image job, like thumbnail etc. If I use a webpage to save new pictures to database one by one, it will cost a lot of time. So I want to find a way in rails console (some code) that can batch save-picture-into-database.

Answer

ZiggyTheHamster picture ZiggyTheHamster · Jun 3, 2011

To further clarify @andrea's answer:

YourPaperclippedModelHere.new(:your_paperclip_field => File.new(path, "r"))

So if your model is called Image and your paperclip field is data:

Image.new(:data => File.new(path_to_your_file, "r"))

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