On 8 January 2015 at 18:41, Tony T. <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > My site is for posting album reviews, which are called Pins. The pins > model has the following attributes: > > :artist, :year, :title, :rank, :description, and :image > > The image uses Paperclip and is stored on Amazon S3 if that matters > > I am trying to allow a user to see a review that another user posted and > click a link to more simply write their own review for that same album. > So basically the link takes them to the Pin.new page and the form > already has the :artist, :title, :image, and :year filled in. > > I figured out how to do it while bringing all of the attributes that I > want, but the image doesn't come over to the new form. > > Here is the pins_controller.rb code I'm using, which gives me an error > of "no implicit conversion of URI::Generic into String": > > def copy > @source = Pin.find(params[:id]) > @image = URI.parse(@source.image.url) > @pin = Pin.new(artist: @source.artist, album: @source.album, year: > @source.year, image: @image) > render 'new' > end > > And in my show view: > > <%= link_to "copy", copy_pin_path(params[:id]) %> > > Attachments: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/10385/Screen_Shot_2015-01-08_at_1.39.06_PM.png
For future reference it is better to copy the error text from the terminal window and paste it here rather than attaching an image, then I would be able to insert my text at the appropriate point in the error. I assume that the image field in the db is a string field. You are calling Pin.new with a URI object as the image and the error says that there is not an implicit way of converting the URI to a string. I guess that you want to use @image.to_s in Pin.new. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLsakr0TbQxknV_tSqL1Hg6jbHBWF4CRatD7pUps%3DQ0Mnw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
