Managed to fix this thanks to the following question on stack overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3910162/seeding-file-uploads-with-...
Just had to fix the code in my seeds file a bit. The following works: activity = Activity.create! :name => 'Football', :icon => File.open(File.join(Rails.root, '/public/images/activity_icons/ soccer.png')) On Nov 18, 1:57 am, stephenjamesmurdoch <stephenjamesmurd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using CarrierWave to attach icons to my activities model. I have a > bunch of seed data that I want to create every time I recreate my > database. > > The following line from my seeds.rb file causes rake to throw and > error: > > activity = Activity.create! :name => 'Football', :icon => > File.read("#{Rails.root}/public/images/activity_icons/football.png") > > As you can see, I'm trying to upload a file from my public directory > when I run rake db:seed. > > But when I do this, I get a complaint about my form not being > multipart encoded. I know that my form IS multipart encoded because > manual uploads work fine and I've added the necessary code i.e. (:html > => {:multipart => true}) to my form > > I'm guessing that this is not a CarrierWave issue since it would > almost certainly happen if I was using paperclip or attachment_fu but > perhaps some of you have dealt with this issue before? > > It seems to me that rake is not using the same form that is used for > manual uploads (makes sense really) so is there a way to tell rake > that this seed data should be considered multipart encoded? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.