Doesn't work on Heroku by default

[asgeo1]

To get working on Heroku, I had to set the :path in the call to has_attached_file like so:

has_attached_file :avatar,
  :styles => { :medium => '300x280>' },
  :storage => :database,
  :path => ':rails_root/public/system/:class/:attachment/:id_partition/:style/:filename'

It took me a little bit to work that out, as it wasn't really obvious what the issue was. The image would actually upload successfully, and the binary would appear in the image table - but the file_name and content_type properties would be empty so the image couldn't be retrieved via paperclip.

What's weird, is that ":rails_root/public/system/:class/:attachment/:id_partition/:style/:filename" is meant to be the default value for the :path setting anyway according to the paperclip documentation.

Is this something that needs to be fixed in paperclip_database?

If not, maybe add a note about setting the :path to the README?

[jarl-dk]

Thanks for reporting this problem.
What version of Rails and what version of paperclip is this seen on?

[willsteinmetz]

I'm running into this right now. My versions are:

• Rails: 4.2.1
• Paperclip: 4.3.0
• Paperclip database: 2.3.1

What's strange is that this all worked fine until I had to wipe my computer. All of the gems and libraries that are listed for both Paperclip and Paperclip database are installed.