Carrierwave doesn't recreate versions after the model update - ruby-on-rails

I've introduced a new version on my Carrierwave Uploader. When I create a new Event it creates both versions correctly. But when I update it, only the file I attached gets uploaded, but versions do not get recreated.
I am using CarrierWave 1.2.2, and looking at the changelog, it doesn't seem to have been a bug that got fixed in the newer versions
class CoverUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
include CarrierWave::MiniMagick
if Rails.env.development? || Rails.env.test?
storage :file
elsif Rails.env.production?
storage :fog
end
# Override the directory where uploaded files will be stored.
# This is a sensible default for uploaders that are meant to be mounted:
def store_dir
if ENV['HEROKU_APP_NAME'].to_s.include?('-pr-')
"review_apps/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{model.id}"
else
"#{Rails.env}/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{model.id}"
end
end
# Provide a default URL as a default if there hasn't been a file uploaded:
def default_url(*args)
ActionController::Base.helpers.asset_path('test.jpg')
end
# Create different versions of your uploaded files:
version :optimised do
process convert: 'webp'
process :set_content_type_to_webp
def full_filename(_for_file = model.cover.file)
"cover_#{model.id}.webp"
end
def exists?
file&.exists?
end
end
def extension_blacklist
%w(webp)
end
private
# Required to actually force Amazon S3 to treat it like an image
def set_content_type_to_webp
file.instance_variable_set(:#content_type, 'image/webp')
end
end

#ogelacinyc was partly correct when he found the bug in full_filename. I went back to test normal functionality with creating another version, with a simple dimension change. I could then see that update would recreate the versions by itself, just like I expected.
That made me think that maybe there is something wrong with my version :optimised block. So after commenting one by one, I found that full_filename was the culprit. It could have been model.cover.file failing silently, but I think it was model.id, as can be seen in the description for filename method in Carrierwave
So instead, I grab the filename directly, extract extension and substitute it with webp:
def full_filename(for_file = model.file_name.file)
extension = File.extname(for_file)
"cover_#{for_file.sub(extension, '.webp')}"
end
Which works without problems!

You need to add an after_save callback to Event and then call recreate_versions! on your mounted uploader.
Assuming you have an Event model with the following, this would solve your problem.
class Event < ApplicationRecord
mount_uploader :cover_image, CoverUploader
after_save :recreate_versions!
delegate :recreate_versions!, to: :cover_image, allow_nil: true
end
See CarrierWave's README also.

Related

How do you pass additional variables to a CarrierWave uploader in Rails?

I see this has been asked a few times over the years (eg Upload path based on a record value for Carrier wave Direct, Passing a parameter to the uploader / accessing a model's attribute from within the uploader / letting the user pick the thumbnail size), but I'm convinced I must be overcomplicating this, as it seems like a very simple problem...
I have a very straightforward Video model that mounts an uploader:
class Video < ApplicationRecord
mount_uploader :file, VideoUploader
end
In the controller, I allow two parameters:
def video_params
params.require(:video).permit(:title, :file)
end
In the actual VideoUploader, I seem to have access to a number of variables derived from the :file column using class builtins (eg original_filename), and I can process the file using ffmpeg parameters. However, I want the parameters to be conditional based on the :title string, and I have no idea how to scope it or access it. What is the absolute simplest way to make sure this variable is accessible to those methods?
Edit: here's the uploader code:
class VideoUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
require 'streamio-ffmpeg'
include CarrierWave::Video
case #title # not working
when "tblend_glitch"
process encode_video: [:mp4,
resolution: "1280x960",
custom: %w(-to 5 -vf scale=-2:720,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference)]
...
end
def full_filename(for_file)
super.chomp(File.extname(super)) + '.mp4'
end
def filename
original_filename.chomp(File.extname(original_filename)) + '.mp4'
end
storage :file
def store_dir
"uploads/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{mounted_as}/#{model.id}"
end
end
Thanks!
You should be able to access the instance in the uploader using the model method.
You haven't defined #title — it's nil. You can create a conditional version with the following code.
class VideoUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
version :tblend, if: :tblend_glitch? do # use a better version name
process encode_video: [:mp4,
resolution: "1280x960",
custom: %w(-to 5 -vf scale=-2:720,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,spp=4:10,tblend=all_mode=average,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference,tblend=all_mode=difference)]
end
# rest of the code
private
def tblend_glitch?
model.title == 'tblend_glitch'
end
end
Ref: https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave#conditional-versions
In theory you can access the model and its attributes from the uploader. However, it looks like the mounted uploader gets invoked before the other attributes are assigned.
For me it worked to create the model with the regular parameters first, and assign the attribute that has the uploader mounted (in your case :file) in a second step. Then I could read all model attributes correctly from within the uploader.
In your case that would be something like this in the controller:
#video = Video.new(video_params.except(:file))
#video.file = video_params[:file] # Invoke uploader last to access the other attributes

File does not get stored (mounted) if processing of versions fails

I upgraded carrierwave from 0.11.0 to 1.2.3 and realised that a, for me crucial, behaviour has changed and broke my logic. Here is the example of my uploader.
class FileUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
include CarrierWave::MiniMagick
storage :fog
version :thumb do
process :convert => :jpg
def default_url
'/assets/document_thumb.png'
end
end
end
And the model that it's mounted too:
class Material < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name, :file
mount_uploader :file, FileUploader, validate_processing: false
before_create :create_file_hash
def create_file_hash
self.hash_digest = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(file.read)
end
end
In the old carrierwave, even if the version processing (e.g. in this case the convert) failed the main version of the file would still be uploaded and stored. However, now in cases when processing fails (not always, but I can't do conditional processing as my case is more complex then here illustrated) nothing gets stored. The file attribute remains an empty (blank) uploader and nothing is uploaded to the fog storage.
Any idea on how to get back the old behaviour?
In other words, how to ignore any errors with processing of versions. Or not trigger processing of versions in the after_cache callback but rather some later time down the line?
I think I've tracked down this issue to the following change in Mounter#cache method:
def cache(new_files)
return if not new_files or new_files == ""
#uploaders = new_files.map do |new_file|
uploader = blank_uploader
uploader.cache!(new_file)
uploader
end
#integrity_error = nil
#processing_error = nil
rescue CarrierWave::IntegrityError => e
#integrity_error = e
raise e unless option(:ignore_integrity_errors)
rescue CarrierWave::ProcessingError => e
#processing_error = e
raise e unless option(:ignore_processing_errors)
end
Which used to just do the uploader.cache!(new_file) directly (not in map) and then uploader got updated along the way and returned to the model when needed. However, now the processing error causes the map block to exit and #uploaders array never gets updated with the uploader that worked (i.e. for the original file).
One possible solution would be overriding the cache! method in you uploader instead:
class FileUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
def cache!(*)
super
rescue CarrierWave::ProcessingError => e
Rails.logger.debug "FileUploader: Error creating thumbnail: #{e}"
nil
end
...
end
That way, it works for every model
Half a day of effort later here is the solution I've come up with that doesn't involve monkey patching carrierwave.
class Material < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name, :file
mount_uploader :file, FileUploader, validate_processing: false
#----> This is to manually trigger thumbnail creation <----
before_create :create_thumbnail
def create_thumbnail
file.thumb.cache!(file.file)
rescue CarrierWave::ProcessingError => e
Rails.logger.debug "FileUploader: Error creating thumbnail: #{e}"
end
# rest of the model code
end
So here we have create_thumbnail method triggered in before_create callback that manually calls the cache! method on the thumb uploader. The file.file is at this moment (i.e. before create, so before the file has been uploaded to the storage) pointing to the temporary cached file. Which is exactly what we want (we don't want to re-download the file from the storage just to create thumbnails.
class FileUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
include CarrierWave::MiniMagick
storage :fog
#----> Add the if condition to versions <----
version :thumb, if: :has_versions? do
process :convert => :jpg
#----> This is needed to trigger processing later <----
after :cache, :process!
def default_url
'/assets/document_thumb.png'
end
end
#---> This is to avoid versions before the main version is fully processed and cached <---
def has_versions?
!(model.new_record? && model[:file].nil?)
end
end
Now this is the tricky party. We need to initially disable the version creations and for that reason we have the has_versions? method that checks if the file is a new record. Now that check is not enough, because in our before_create callback the model is still new record (i.e. it hasn't yet been persisted).
However, what's the difference between the first time the uploader tries to create the versions (and which, if it fails, prevents original file from caching as described in the question) and the moment we call it in our before_create callback is that in the second case the file attribute of the model will be set.
Be careful, however, because you cannot do model.file since that points to the uploader (and if called here where I'm calling it it would actually cause a stack overflow). You need to access it as model[:file].
The final trick is that for some reason just calling cache! in the model would not actually trigger the processing. The processing was supposed to be triggered during the initial run (which we prevented for other versions) and since the original file is cached, carrierwave expects the versions are as well, so they don't need processing. But adding the after :cache, :process! ensures that it's triggered.
Don't know if anybody will find this useful or if I've gone about the problem the wrong way.
Either way, I'd love to hear comments.
Happy I made it work for my case and that I can continue using latest gem version.

Store two versions of a file at once using Carrierwave

I'm using Carrierwave and Fog gems to store a file to my Amazon S3 bucket (to /files/file_id.txt). I need to store a slightly different version of the file to a different location in the bucket (/files/file_id_processed.txt) at the same time (right after the original is stored). I don't want to create a separate uploader attribute for it on the model - is there any other way?
This my current method that stores the file:
def store_file(document)
file_name = "tmp/#{document.id}.txt"
File.open(file_name, 'w') do |f|
document_content = document.content
f.puts document_content
document.raw_export.store!(f)
document.save
end
# I need to store the document.processed_content
File.delete(file_name) if File.exist?(file_name)
end
This is the Document model:
class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
mount_uploader :raw_export, DocumentUploader
# here I want to avoid adding something like:
# mount_uploader :processed_export, DocumentUploader
end
This is my Uploader class:
class DocumentUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
storage :fog
def store_dir
"files/"
end
def extension_white_list
%w(txt)
end
end
This is how my final solution looks like (kinda) - based on Nitin Verma's answer:
I had to add a custom processor method for the version to the Uploader class:
# in document_uploader.rb
...
version :processed do
process :do_the_replacements
end
def do_the_replacements
original_content = #file.read
File.open(current_path, 'w') do |f|
f.puts original_content.gsub('Apples','Pears')
end
end
considering that you need similar file but with different name.
for this you need to create a version for file in uploader.
version :processed do
process
end
and now second file name will be processed_{origional_file}.extension. if you want to change file name of second file you can use this link https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave/wiki/How-to:-Customize-your-version-file-names

Carrierwave store_dir not modified when running rspec with spork

I've followed the instructions on how to define a test-specific store directory for carrierwave uploads, which suggests opening the CarrierWave::Uploader::Base class and redefining store_dir and cache_dir like so:
if defined?(CarrierWave)
CarrierWave::Uploader::Base.descendants.each do |klass|
next if klass.anonymous?
klass.class_eval do
def cache_dir
"#{Rails.root}/spec/support/uploads/tmp"
end
def store_dir
"#{Rails.root}/spec/support/uploads/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{mounted_as}/#{model.id}"
end
end
end
end
This works like a charm, except when I run rspec with spork, then it fails to modify the class and uploads are stored in the default location. Does anyone have any clue why this might be happening?
Someone else working on our project solved this problem by adding a line with just AvatarUploader ahead of the CarrierWave::Uploader::Base.descendants.each line, like this:
if defined?(CarrierWave)
AvatarUploader # load AvatarUploader class
CarrierWave::Uploader::Base.descendants.each do |klass|
#...
Not entirely sure why this works, but it does.
Little addition to accepted answer, for anyone coming here:
if uploader classes are not loaded before the call to
CarrierWave::Uploader::Base.descendants, it will return empty array, so either specify each uploader like in accepted answer or you could do something like this to require all uploaders from let's say rails uploaders folder
Dir["#{Rails.root}/app/uploaders/*.rb"].each {|file| require file}
CarrierWave::Uploader::Base.descendants.each do |klass|
#...

callback issue with carrierwave and mongoid

I am using carrierwave and mongoid on a rails 3 application and am having an issue with an after_save callback. Consider the following
class Video
include Mongoid::Document
field :name
mount_uploader :file, VideoUploader
after_create :enqueue_for_encoding
protected
def enqueue_for_encoding
// point your encoding service to where it expects the permanent file to reside
// in my case on s3
end
end
My issue is that in my enqueue_for_encoding method, file.url points to the local tmp directory not the s3 directory.
How do I get my enqueue_for_encoding method to be called when file.url points to s3?
Thanks!
Jonathan
Check out carrierwave's howto page on Callbacks
https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave/wiki/How-to%3A-use-callbacks
It worked for me
Okay, I figured it out. To took a bit of hacking. So currently carrierwave does not expose an after_create hook, all of it persisting and processing happens in the after_save callback. Here is the code I used to work around it:
# Video.rb
mount_uploader :file, VideoUploader
# overwrite the file setting to flag the model that we are creating rather than saving
def file=(obj)
#new_file = true
super(obj)
end
# chain the store_file! method to enqueue_for_encoding after storing the file AND
# if the file is new
alias_method :orig_store_file!, :store_file!
def store_file!
orig_store_file!
if #new_file #means dirty
#new_file = false
enqueue_for_encoding
end
true
end
UPDATE
Woops -- that didn't work. It almost did -- the url is correct, but it is being fired permanently. Meaning the file is still in process of being loaded, and is not fully stored when enqueue_for_encoding is called
It is possible to set your enqueue_for_encoding callback on the uploader itself. But I prefer to do it this way:
class Video
# mount the uploader first:
mount_uploader :file, VideoUploader
# then add the callback:
after_save :enqueue_for_encoding, on: :create
end
You could try removing your after_create callback in the model and add the following to your uploader:
# video_uploader.rb
process :encode
def encode
model.enqueue_for_encoding
end
The process callbacks are called after the file is saved (I think) which should allow you to hook in once your file is up on S3.

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