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Ruby

Posted by Giuseppe Elia Brandi
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Giuseppe Elia Brandi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 69,630 Points

Attaching Files - Part 2 - Advanced Social Features in Ruby on Rails

Good day all, Has anybody come across the following error after following all the instructions for attaching files?

Paperclip::Errors::MissingRequiredValidatorError in StatusesController#create

I am under the impression that some additional code may be necessary in order to have the attachment validated.

These are the video instructions that I have followed:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/advanced-social-features-in-ruby-on-rails/uploading-files/attaching-files-part-1

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/advanced-social-features-in-ruby-on-rails/uploading-files/attaching-files-part-2

Best Regards.

Giuseppe Brandi

4 Answers

Drew Kolmeier
Drew Kolmeier
4,744 Points

Okay, found a solution. The new version of paperclip requires validating, as show on https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip

Basically, add validates_attachment_content_type :attachment, :content_type => /\Aimage\/.*\Z/ to the document model underneath the has_attached_file.

finally passed through the attribs for me.

Giuseppe Elia Brandi
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Giuseppe Elia Brandi
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Good day Drew,

I have followed your previous instructions and it worked - Thank You Very Much!

I got stucked again with the same sort of error message at adding avatars.

I have been able to solve the problem by changing the paperclip version to paperclip (3.4.1) and cocaine to cocaine (~> 0.5.0) in the gemfile.lock.

Please let me know if it works for you too.

Drew Kolmeier
Drew Kolmeier
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Drew Kolmeier
Drew Kolmeier
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I have the same issue, are you using rails 4 or 3?

Having a ton of problems trying to figure out how to white list the attributes properly with strong parameters, finally got it where I thought it would work and ran into your error.

Giuseppe Elia Brandi
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Giuseppe Elia Brandi
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Good day Drew, Thanks for your reply. I will try your solution as soon as I have the chance. I am using rails 4 and I have to confess that I think some of Jason's videos need to be updated. However, I guess that this kind of challenges are part of Web Developer's life. Have you have already started the Build a ToDo List Application with Rails 4? I started it yesterday i and I run into the following error: ExecJS::RuntimeError in ToDo List (this is the sort of message). I thought I could have done something wrong and I decided to upload Jason's files after running all the procedures as instructed by the videos. Guess what? Same problem! I went around by using the suggestions of this site: https://coderwall.com/p/bylmmw . Not sure if it was relevant but I had to cut off a file extension coffeescript (I cannot remember the file's name but you cannot go wrong as there is only one in the project). It worked!!