Rails Partial Image Rendering - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm getting up to speed on rails and ran into an odd problem. I'm rendering some images from the database (Image models attached to another model, Plants). I'm having some trouble when attempting to do it via a partial. I've got show.html.erb
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>Images</legend>
<%= unless #plant.images.blank? then
for image in #plant.images
debugger
render :partial => 'show_image', :object => image
end
else
"This plant has no images to display."
end
%>
</fieldset>
And the partial _show_image.html.erb:
<div class="image_container">
<% debugger %>
<img src="<%= url_for(:action => 'picture', :id => object.id) %>"/>
<p class='image_caption'><%= object.comment %></p>
</div>
When this is rendered it just renders a "#" for each image, rather than the actual image. It seems to be just rendering the object as a string, as in the source I get:
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>Images</legend>
#<Image:0x242c910>
</fieldset>
When running through the debugger locally:
/Users/*****/dev/plantmanager/app/views/plants/show.html.erb:54
debugger
(rdb:241) image
#<Image id: 40, comment: "Test", name: "Ixia.gif", content_type: "image/gif", data: "GIF89a2\0002\000####$\205\233\tI\250\"x\224\b?\206\031d|ju####\v\031###\247\bI\257G\222\232\222\227\263\262...", plant_id: 55, thumbnail: nil>
(rdb:221) #plant
#<Plant id: 55, name: "Test", description: "Test", created_at: "2009-05-07 07:19:44", updated_at: "2009-05-07 07:19:44", planted: "2009-05-07 00:00:00", sprouted: "2009-05-15 00:00:00", plant_type_id: 1, finished: "2009-05-27 00:00:00">
(rdb:221) #plant.images
[#<Image id: 40, comment: "Test", name: "Ixia.gif", content_type: "image/gif", data: "GIF89a2\0002\000####$\205\233\tI\250\"x\224\b?\206\031d|ju####\v\031###\247\bI\257G\222\232\222\227\263\262...", plant_id: 55, thumbnail: nil>]
(rdb:221) continue
/Users/*****/dev/plantmanager/app/views/plants/_show_image.html.erb:2
<% debugger %>
(rdb:221) object
#<Image id: 40, comment: "Test", name: "Ixia.gif", content_type: "image/gif", data: "GIF89a2\0002\000####$\205\233\tI\250\"x\224\b?\206\031d|ju####\v\031###\247\bI\257G\222\232\222\227\263\262...", plant_id: 55, thumbnail: nil>
(rdb:221) object.id
40
(rdb:221) object.comment
"Test"
(rdb:221) continue
Here are my models [snipped a bit]:
class Plant < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :images
validates_presence_of :name
validates_presence_of :plant_type_id
validates_associated :images
after_update :save_images
def image_attributes=(image_attributes)
image_attributes.each do |attributes|
# TODO: Probably handle validation in the image model?
if attributes[:id].blank?
unless attributes[:uploaded_picture].blank?
tmpImg = images.build()
tmpImg.uploaded_picture=attributes[:uploaded_picture]
tmpImg.comment = attributes[:comment]
end
else
img = images.detect { |i| i.id == attributes[:id].to_i }
img.attributes = attributes
end
end
end
def save_images
images.each do |i|
if i.should_destroy?
i.destroy
else
i.save(false)
end
end
end
end
class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_format_of :content_type,
:with => /^image/,
:message => "--- you can only upload pictures"
attr_accessor :should_destroy
def should_destroy?
should_destroy.to_i == 1
end
def uploaded_picture=(picture_field)
self.name = base_part_of(picture_field.original_filename)
self.content_type = picture_field.content_type.chomp
self.data = picture_field.read
#image = MiniMagick::Image.from_blob self.data
#self.thumbnail = resize_and_crop(image, 100).to_blob
end
def base_part_of(file_name)
File.basename(file_name).gsub(/[^\w._-]/, '')
end
end

Answer 1

Try this instead:
<% unless #plant.images.blank?
for image in #plant.images
%>
<%= render :partial => 'show_image', :object => image %>
<% end
else %>
This plant has no images to display.
<% end %>
Sorry about the formatting, but you get the idea.

Answer 2

Build a method for the pic in your Image model
class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :plant
validates_presence_of :uploaded_picture
...
end
In your plants controller
def plant_pic
img = Image.find(params[:id])
# THE NEXT LINE IS THE ONE I THINK YOU ARE MISSING:
send_data img.uploaded_picture, :filename =>"plant#{img.plant_id}_#{img.id.to_s}+'.jpg',
:type => 'image/jpeg',
:disposition => 'inline'
end
...
And then in your plants view:
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>Images</legend>
<% if plant.images.blank? -%>
<p>This plant has no images to display.</p>
<% else %>
<%= #plant.images.each do |image| %>
<div class="img_container">
<img src="<%= url_for(:action => 'plant_pic', :id => image.id) %>"/>
</div>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
</fieldset>
You may want to encode/decode the uploaded_picture binary field someway (I use Base64.encode and Base64.decode) in your images controller, but that's another issue.
Hope that helps you