[Paperclip]Store attached files from status into image gallery

You can just create an automatic album that exists for all users called "Status Attachments" or whatever you want to call that.

Then you want to run a specific query. Something like:

@status_attachments = @user.statuses.where('document_id IS NOT NULL')

That will look for all statuses that have an ID in the document_id column. Then, you can look through each of those and display the actual picture like it was an album.

Kelvin - Anything is possible! I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind? Here is a link Bootstrap Images that may help you, or not? You may also gain ideas from the examples of websites found on bootstrap as well.

Hey. Thanks for the answer. I am currently using bootstrap as the UI and thats not the problem. It is the backend. I have currently 3 Models. One for attached status files, one for albums and one for pictures in that albums. I want to kinda merge this pictures and attached file model so the attached status files were directly stored into an album and not just visible by looking at the statuses any ideas? Or maybe just say the attached files should also be shown in a folder at the albums index page?

Yesss. That really much sounds like a solution :) Thank you. Just another question. How to create an automatic album? :P

Well in the view for you albums, should be the code:

albums.each do |album|

end

This loops through all the albums for that user in the database. Since this album will always exist, we should just put it before these albums. Something like:

<%= link_to( put a link to this specific album ) %>

Then, in your routes file, make a route that goes to that specific album. You will also need to add a new action for that in your pictures controller.

I don't want to do the code for you, because part of learning is to try and see if you can do it on your own. If you get stuck, post your code here and I can help you further.

Good luck!