I just wanted to know how one would go about uploading a remote file url using Carrierwave in the Rails console.
I tried the following without any luck. I presume it's not processing the Uploader?
user = User.first
user.remote_avatar_url = "http://www.image.com/file.jpg"
user.save
Many thanks
Take a look at the 'Uploading files from a remote location' section on this page https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave
CarrierWave should throw an error if the url of the location is invalid
2.1.3 :015 > image.remote_image_url = "http"
=> "http"
2.1.3 :016 > image.save!
(0.2ms) BEGIN
(0.2ms) ROLLBACK
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Image trying to download a file which is not served over HTTP
Or if it's an unknown host:
2.1.3 :017 > image.remote_image_url = "http://foobar"
=> "http://foobar"
2.1.3 :018 > image.save!
(0.4ms) BEGIN
(0.4ms) ROLLBACK
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Image could not download file: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Please also note that if you want to download remote images you should prefix the attribute with remote_
and suffix it with _url
, as shown in the example
user = User.first
user.remote_avatar = File.open(FILE_LOCATION)
user.save
FILE_LOCATION can be
File.join(Rails.root, '/files/png-sample.png')
if file is found in a folder 'files' in rails project
I was facing the same problem. and the issue might be http is redirecting to https. So I replaced them using gsub as follows:
image.remote_image_url = remote_image_url.gsub('http://','https://')
image.save!
this should most probably solve the problem.
Is work as:
url='http://host.domain/file.jpg'
time=Time.now.to_i.to_s
myfile=IO.sysopen("tmp/"+time+"_img."+url.split(".").last,"wb+")
tmp_img=IO.new(myfile,"wb")
tmp_img.write open(URI.encode(url)).read
if File.exist?("tmp/"+time+"_img."+url.split(".").last)
"tmp/"+time+"_img."+url.split(".").last
image = ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile.new(:tempfile => tmp_img, :filename => File.basename(tmp_img))
else
image=nil
end
@your_model.image=image
@your_model.save
I have had problems with remote_avatar_url not uploading the image or throwing any errors. For me, as far as I can tell, it was because I set the following in my model.
attr_accessor :remote_avatar_url
Carrierwave covers this for you, and although I don't understand why, setting it yourself buggers things up.