#6 √ resolved
Nathan Stitt

Attachment::path shouldn't be private

Reported by Nathan Stitt | April 12th, 2008 @ 12:36 AM

I'm attempting to incorporate paperclip into a project where I need to be able to open the original image so I can perform various post processing on it.

However the only way I can see to find the path were it's stored at is to call the path method, but it's marked as private. Of course I could calculate the path myself, and it is fairly simple to do so, but why duplicate what already there?

For now I've done it on my own copy, but then I have to remember to do so every time I upgrade.

Any chance we could get this changed?

Thanks for the great lib, it's exactly what I was hoping attachment_fu would be, but it turned out to be a bit to heavy for my tastes.

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Jon Yurek

    Jon Yurek April 15th, 2008 @ 05:21 PM

    • → Assigned user changed from “” to “Jon Yurek”
    • → State changed from “new” to “open”

    You know, I was intending that it be backend-agnostic, but I don't see why this can't be public, so yeah. I'll get that added soon.

  • Jon Yurek

    Jon Yurek April 16th, 2008 @ 10:41 AM

    • → State changed from “open” to “resolved”

    This has been changed in the latest version.

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