I think what is tripping me up the most is figuring out how to access
this hash table that it returns. It does indeed seem like a fairly
simple, straightforward process, but I get the feeling that without
understanding the base underneath I'm doomed to do silly things
without realizing it.
For example,
<%= form_for(@video, :action => resource(:videos)) do %>
<p>
<%= text_field :name, :label => "Name : " %>
<%= file_field :file, :label => "File to Upload: " %>
</p>
<%= submit "Upload" %>
</p>
That is the simple view code I have to upload the file I want...but I
can't get it to do anything, because I either get a method not found
error (if I don't define file as a method) or I get a wrong number of
arguments error, if I mimic Samo Korosec's code and have a file
(incoming_file) method. The file_field doesn't seem to pass anything
to my method at all, which makes me wonder how on earth I grab the
hash in the first place. I also tried specifically doing file=, but
that didn't seem to change anything other than letting me know that
there is the wrong number of arguments, still.
I've tried working with paperclip as well...but even trying to import
it (after successfully installing it) gives me compile time errors
(all I'm doing is include Paperclip::Resources, like I've seen in some
tutorials)
I feel like I understand everything, but that things aren't working
quite the way I seem to think they should...
-Jenny
On Dec 26, 2:02 pm, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Jenny wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Given that merb's major selling point is file uploads, I'm a bit
> > confused that there seems to be little to no documentation regarding
> > them. I had rails uploading files in five minutes, merb continues to
> > defeat me after 8 hours.
>
> >http://wiki.merbivore.com/upload?s[]=upload
>
> > The above is the ONLY resource I can find on merb file uploads, and it
> > seems incomplete, outdated or possibly both, because it makes little
> > since and I cannot for the life of me get it to work.
>
> > Can anyone shed some light on this arcane process, or at least point
> > me towards some decent resources?
>
> > -Jenny
>
> What problems did you run into? It is literally a few lines of code
> to handle an upload. You just upload to an action, and in that action
> you will get a certain hash in the params that is like this:
>
> {:filename => File.basename(filename),
> :content_type => content_type,
> :tempfile => body,
> :size => File.size(body.path)}
>
> So you get the filename, the content type, :tempfile is the actual
> file on disk and :size is the size of the file. Do whatever you want
> with it from there.
>
> Cheers-
> Ezra Zygmuntowicz
> [email protected]
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