How to seed the path to an image?

Question

Organization and Image have a 1-to-1 relationship. Image has a column called filename, which stores the path to a file. I have such a file included in the asset pipeling: app/assets/other/image.jpg. How can I include the path to this file when seeding?

I have tried in my seeds file:

@organization = ...
@organization.image.create!(filename: File.open('app/assets/other/image.jpg'))
# I also tried:
# @organization.image.create!(filename: 'app/assets/other/image.jpg')

Both generate the error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `create!' for nil:NilClass

I checked with the debugger and can confirm that it's not @organization that is nil.
How can I make this work and add the path to the file to the Image model?

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Update: I tried the following:

@image = Image.create!(organization_id: @organization.id,
                       filename: 'app/assets/other/image.jpg')

And I also tried:

image = @organization.build_image(filename: 'app/assets/other/image.jpg')
image.save

Upon seeding both attempts produce the error:

CarrierWave::FormNotMultipart: You tried to assign a String or a Pathname to an uploader, for security reasons, this is not allowed.

Answer 1

As your error is clearly telling what the issue is. It turns out that @organization doesn't have any image yet. So try

file  = File.open(File.join(Rails.root,'app/assets/other/image.jpg'))
image = @organization.build_image(filename: file)
image.save

Answer 2

You are defining one to one relationship between Organization and Image, create action will not work, you have two ways to do this

1. Change association to one to many to make you code working

2. Another one is to do like this:

@image = Image.create(#your code)
@image.organization = @organization

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