Default set of mime types

[Jean-Philippe]

Hello,

First, thanks for this plugin and the constant updates to it !

A feature I'd like to see in paperclip is a set of mime types,
matching some types of file.
Here is an example of the typical use case (as I don't think i'm
really clear):

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_attached_file :avatar
validates_attachment_content_type :avatar, :content_type => :image
end

or something along
validates_attachment_content_type :avatar, :content_type =>
Paperclip::MimeTypes::Image

with Paperclip::MimeTypes::Image being == ['image/jpeg', 'image/
pjpeg', 'image/gif', 'image/png', 'image/x-png', 'image/jpg']
Other 'sets' of mime types being 'video', 'document' (Word, OO.org,
PDF etc) for exemple.

I think this could be a nice way to avoid duplication and missing mime
types.
Could this be added in some way in paperclip ?

Thanks (and happy new year :-) )

[Jonathan Yurek]

You know, I'd resisted this idea when presented as the ":content_type
=> :image" way, but having a few constants that contain an array of
content types seems way more palatable to me, because it's much more
transparent what's going on (and therefore modifiable). I think will
add this fairly soon.

Thanks for the idea.

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[Jean-Philippe]

Thanks for listening to this suggestion, I'm sure this will be useful.

(But indeed after some thoughts the symbol idea isn't that clean)

[Chad Pytel]

The mime types built into Rails have the ability to define synonyms
and such. If we're exploring something here, it's probably worthwhile
to look into using those.

-Chad

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[linojon]

i know this is an old thread but thought i'd point out this seems to
work

validates_attachment_content_type :image, :content_type => /image/

On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Jean-Philippe wrote:

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