sorry...that was the wrong URL for the second pastie. Here's the right one: http://www.pastie.org/1354138
On Dec 6, 8:02 pm, spncrgr <thisbudsfory...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Vladimir and David for your replies. > > I did experiment with Paperclip without much success. I look at the > post Vladimir linked to and that gave me the idea to create a custom > processor. It didn't work though. No errors thrown, but no records > saved either :-/ > > I'm sure I did it wrong, but here's the code:http://www.pastie.org/1354053 > > I also experimented with taking Paperclip out of the picture and put > the code to create the records in the controller. What I get now is > an error that says "invalid attribute". The invalid attribute > provided is the first email address of the first line of the file. > > Here's that code: http://www.pastie.org/1354053 > > Thanks again for any and all help. This has been my largest hurdle to > overcome in Rails thus far. > > -S > > On Dec 6, 4:01 pm, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Vladimir Rybas > > <vladimirry...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > I recommend you to use Paperclip for files uploading. > > >http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip > > > The only thing if I recall, that kept me from using paperclip for my > > purposes, is the file essentially attached to the model but does not allow > > for modification and re-saving the file --- am I mistaken? Unless things > > have changed recently, it would be super-cool if Paperclip would handle file > > mods just as a mod to any attribute of the model... although I guess this > > gets away from the basic intent of Paperclip, which for what it does do does > > it very nicely. > > > > Besides it's other awesome features, you want to use Paperclip > > > Processors to play with a file after upload. > > > >http://mdeering.com/posts/018-paperclip-processors-doing-so-much-more... > > > > To read file lines you can go for > > > > File.readlines(@file.path).collect(&:chomp).each do |line| > > > ... (create your models here) > > > end > > > > to collect all lines. > > > `chomp` will cut end-of-line symbols, and @file it's an object which > > > is given by Paperclip. > > > Or if you have troubles with this one, here's another option > > > > IO.foreach("path/to/file.txt") do |line| > > > ... (create your models here) > > > end > > > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:54 AM, spncrgr <thisbudsfory...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > I need some help trying to figure out how to add the ability for a > > > > user to upload a text file, and then have the application parse that > > > > text file, and add each record as instance of a model object. I've > > > > found a lot of helpful articles out there, but I'm stuck trying to > > > > bring it all together since I'm still very new to all of this. > > > > > Here's my view code: > > > > # index.html.erb > > > > <% form_for :upload, :url => { :action => :upload }, :html => > > > > { :multipart => true } do |f| %> > > > > > <p>Please select a file to upload:</p> > > > > <%= f.file_field :file %> > > > > <%= f.submit 'Upload', :disable_with => "Uploading..." %> > > > > > <% end %> > > > > > In my controller, I've been able to write something like this to work > > > > with the data in my upload view: > > > > > # mailing_lists_controller.rb > > > > def upload > > > > file = params[:upload][:file] > > > > �...@data = file.read > > > > end > > > > > so then the view looks like this: > > > > # upload.html.erb > > > > <% @data.split("\r\n").each do |row| %> > > > > > <%= row.split("\t").join(" | ") %> > > > > > <% end %> > > > > > So, where I'm stuck is translating that into saving each row as a > > > > record in the database. I've tried several different things in the > > > > model (like creating a "process" method or using "before_save"), but > > > > nothing has been successful thus far (probably because I'm not > > > > implementing it correctly). > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Spencer > > > > > -- > > > > 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<rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscrib > > > e...@googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > 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<rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscrib > > > e...@googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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