How can I use Carrierwave with cloudinary in seeds file - ruby-on-rails

Question

I want to upload multiple images to cloudinary by association of a carrierwave active record. How can I do this in a seeds file, using an array of remote urls?
Ive read countless articles how to use carrierwave/cloudinary helper tags to target an image upload within an html form, but nothing on doing this directly within code, any ideas?

Answer 1

That's not so hard to do at all.
So what I did:
# Gemfile
gem 'cloudinary'
gem 'carrierwave'
#config/cloudinary.yml
development:
cloud_name: "carrierwave-example"
api_key: "YOUR CLOUDINARY CREDENTIALS"
api_secret: "YOUR CLOUDINARY CREDENTIALS"
# in your uploader
class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
include Cloudinary::CarrierWave #include cloudinary lib
# storage :file - comment this out
# def store_dir - comment this too
# "uploads/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{mounted_as}/#{model.id}"
# end
end
# You model, that uses uploader
class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base
mount_uploader :image, ImageUploader
end
After writting this simple staff you can create Pictures, that will store images in clodinary like this:
Picture.create(image: "/path/to/image")
or if you have remote links of images, U just itterate through them
["http://image1.jpg","http://image2.jpg","http://image3.jpg"].each do |link|
Picture.create(remote_image_url: link)
end
Just remember to use remote_#{your_column_name}_url if you have remote link