Extending Active Scaffold as_paperclip_bridge to delete & update image/attachment

tobi — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:35 +0000

As you know I’m quite fond of working with Active Scaffold (AS) for data administration proposes. Quite recently we moved over to the RoR paperclip attachment plugin for file upload handling. I was even more happy to see a Active Scaffold bridge which integrates paperclip smoothly into AS as well. It’s created by and hosted here on github.

Unfortunately it didn’t provide the possibility to delete or update an image once it’s assigned to an object. Well no problem, another fork of mine, some coding and now it possible. I basically reused to code of the as_file_column_bridge. Check it out here:
~~http://github.com/rngtng/as_paperclip_bridge/tree/master~~

Update: changes got merged into trunk, check it out:

http://github.com/mnaglik/as_paperclip_bridge/

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admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:34:01 +0000

ActiveScaffold is a great plugin to build edit form easily. Nicely AJAX and nested forms support (well with limits . One thing which bugged me all the time, was the extra click you had to do to show the searchbox. Well I solved it like this:

  def index
    active_scaffold_config.list.label += render_to_string( :action => :search, :layout => false )
    super
  end

I know, it’s kind of bad hack, as the label actually isn’t supposed to contain a form – but it works out quite well!

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Extending Active Scaffold as_paperclip_bridge to delete & update image/attachment

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