Heroku and tmp folder

[Gustavo Caso]

In my Rails app I have delayed_job gem to delay all the emails, the problem with this appear when I want to have some attachments in the emails, in development I store then in tmp folder.

I Heroku I thought that might be possible as well but I get the error the there is no file in that folder.

This is my code inside my controller: 

def send_bill

    @sale = Sale.find(params[:id])

    @client = @sale.client

    create_pdf(@sale, @client)

    PdfMailer.delay.send_pdf_info(@client, current_user.email)

    @bill.update(sent: true)

    flash.now.notice = "Bill was sent successfully"

    render :show

 end

The method create_pdf is the one that create the pdf and store it in the tmp folder.

def create_pdf(sale, client, is_bill = true)

    name = is_bill ? "factura.pdf" : "presupuesto.pdf"

    action = is_bill ? "bills/show" : "bills/budget"

    @sale = sale

    @client = client

    @bill = @sale.bills.first if is_bill

    file = File.new("#{Rails.root}/tmp/#{name}", "w+")

    kit = PDFKit.new( render_to_string(action: "#{action}", layout: 'pdf', format: "pdf"), :page_size => 'A4')

    file = kit.to_file(file.path)

 end

Inside my mailer the code is:

def send_pdf_info(client, current_user_email)

    @client = client

    attachments["Factura.pdf"] = File.read(#{Rails.root}/tmp/factura.pdf")

    mail(to: default_to(@client.email), bcc: current_user_email, subject: "Factura Printoria")

end

I'm not able to solve this.

Any help will be really appreciated. 

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Gustavo Caso <gusta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my Rails app I have delayed_job gem to delay all the emails, the problem
> with this appear when I want to have some attachments in the emails, in
> development I store then in tmp folder.
> I Heroku I thought that might be possible as well but I get the error the
> there is no file in that folder.

Heroku does not provide access to a file system.

Look into cloud storage providers, e.g. Amazon S3, Rackspace
Cloud Files, etc.

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Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.s...@gmail.com
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twitter: @hassan

[Gustavo Caso]

Thanks. I read some more and I'm going to use amazon S3.