Comments on: SWFUpload, Paperclip and Ruby on Rails

By: Harm

Harm — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:26:21 +0000

@Kevin Thanks a bunch! That Safari bug was really driving me insane. Works perfectly with the quoting!

By: nap

nap — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:19 +0000

Oh man that was mangled pretty badly… Hopefully this will work:

upload_url: "?_yourappname_session=&authenticity_token="

By: nap

nap — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:59:14 +0000

oh man that was mangled pretty badly… Maybe this will work (or please correct in moderation):

upload_url: “\?_yourappname_session=\\&authenticity_token=\”

By: nap

nap — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:57:44 +0000

Anyone using Rails 2.1 may run into the issue that Session IDs are multi-line… In SWFU object setup, if you need to pass the session id by hand, you can specify it like this:

upload_url: “?_yourapp_session=&authenticity_token=”

By: James Andrews

James Andrews — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:49:41 +0000

For anyone wanting to get this working quickly on Rails 2.1, a simple fix for the InvalidAuthenticityToken error is to add:

skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token

to the top of your attachments/photos controller, rather than disabling protect_from_forgery across your whole application.

By: Colby

Colby — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:25:54 +0000

I’m also getting the InvalidAuthenticityToken error. I’ve tried passing it as a post_param and as part of the URL, but nothing seems to be satisfactory. Anyone have an idea of what’s going on there yet?

By: masone

masone — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:51:00 +0000

@lardawge: As a quick workaround you could rename the image in a before_save filter and set the new image path to the database as well.

By: Stag

Stag — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:47:28 +0000

I too am having trouble with an ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error. The rails project im using this with uses a login and hence has a user_id in the session.

I found I had to comment out my protect_from_forgery in the application controller to get it to work but that just left me with a “couldnt find user without id” error.

I like the look of delagoya’s solution as im working with post_params already but putting ” session_data: “” ” in there didnt accomplish anything for me.

I also used post_params to put in the authenticity token but got no result with that either.
For anyone whos interested the token can be got with:
$(’#form-id div input’).val()
replacing form-id with the forms id :P

Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Jim Neath

Jim Neath — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:14:26 +0000

@delagoya - I’ve not actually tried that. I’ll have a play around with it and update the sample app.

@lardawge - I’ve not actually tried doing anything like that yet. You may be able to use a Proc but I’m not sure yet. I’ll have a look into it and let you know.

By: lardawge

lardawge — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:59:03 +0000

Jim,
Couple questions-

1. Any way to rename the files? Say for example if I had a form with ‘first_name’ ‘last_name’. Is there a way to rename each file 1-first_name.jpeg, 2-first-name.jpeg, ect.

2. Along the same lines, folder naming/directory. Folder= first_name+last_name?

I know it may be slightly outside the scope of what you are trying to do here but any tips pointers would be appreciated.