I'm implementing Carrierwave with fog storage into my Rails App. The whole purpose of this app is to store pdf articles and have the ability for anyone with access to the app to retrieve them. Right now, I have the functionality of storing the article pdf working great. But, now I need to be able to retrieve the pdf from S3. Is this possible? I noticed in the docs there is a uploader.retrieve_from_store!("my_file.png") method. I tried to run this in the console and I got this error NoMethodError: undefined method retrieve_from_store! for ArticleUploader:Class Any help with this would be great! I'm just not finding any suitable answers so far. Thanks!
class ArticleUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
storage :fog
def extension_whitelist
%w(jpg jpeg gif png pdf)
end
end
class Article < ApplicationRecord
mount_uploader :file, ArticleUploader
validates :title, presence: :true
validates :publication_date, presence: :true
validates :source, presence: :true
end
You can access it with the methods that carrierwave has, in your case:
article = Article.find(1)
article.file.url
If you are on development it will output the path for the file and if you are on production and using S3, it will output the whole url, http://s3.amazonaws.com/<vendor>/articles/1/file.pdf for example.
You can find more information on the official docs:
https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave#activerecord
There is also an old rails cast on that http://railscasts.com/episodes/253-carrierwave-file-uploads