Paperclip Database Storage is an additional storage option for Paperclip. It gives you the opportunity to store your paperclip binary file uploads in the database along with all your other data.

paperclip_database depends on paperclip

Eeeehhhhh it works with rails 5+ now

gem "paperclip_database", :git => "git://github.com/lincsanders/paperclip_database.git"

Supported version are rails >= 3.0 and paperclip version >= 2.3

There is no quick start. You definitely need to understand how to use paperclip first.

You use paperclip_database by specifying database as storage for your paperclip and create a migration for the additional database table.

In your model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_attached_file :avatar,
                    :storage => :database ## This is the essence
                    :styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb => "100x100>" }
end

There is a migration generator that will create a basic migration for the extra table.

On the console (rails 3):

bundle exec ./script/rails generate paperclip_database:migration User avatar

The generated migration should be sufficient, but you may consider adding additional code to the migration such as t.timestamps for adding standard rails timesstamps or a referential database constraint, or an index on the foreign key id column. If you add a refferential constraint with the option ON DELETE CASCADE, then you need to add the option :cascade_deletion => true to your paperclip has_attached_file declaration to let PaperclipDatabase know that the Database takes care of it. Otherwise PaperclipDatabase will do the cascade deletion.

To start develop, please download the source code

git clone git://github.com/lincsanders/paperclip_database.git

When downloaded, you can start issuing the commands like

bundle install
bundle exec appraisal clean
bundle exec appraisal generate
bundle exec appraisal install
bundle exec appraisal rake

Or you can see what other options are there:

bundle exec rake -T

Forker from https://github.com/softace/paperclip_database

Copyright (c) 2018 Lincoln Sanderson. See LICENSE.txt for further details.