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CafeHey
CafeHey

Reputation: 5820

Rails and Paperclip... don't save the original image, just the styles?

In paperclip when you save an image with lots of style and sizes it also saves the original.

But in my app it's not necessary to save the original, just the style will do, what I was wondering was how do you not save the original. Just store it in memory or in a temporary area and then not save it once the style have been generated.

Ideally it would not save original at all. I guess one solution would be to save the original, process the style and delete afterwards, however I'm trying to save on bandwidth and deleting the original after it has been saved kindof defeats the point.

Cheers!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6850

Answers (2)

James Antrobus
James Antrobus

Reputation: 409

This worked for me 

def destroy_original
  File.unlink(self.photo.path)
end

Taken from here: http://tekn0t.net/delete-original-image-when-using-papercliprai

Edit: the provided link is no longer valid. Here is a valid one from the same author: https://gist.github.com/tekn0t/755593

Upvotes: 5

apneadiving
apneadiving

Reputation: 115541

check this: How do I tell paperclip to not save the original file?

Upvotes: 8

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