Paperclip + Passenger = :(

[pimpmaster]

Running my app in dev mode and Paperclip performs splendidly.

I just deployed to my server (which also has ImageMagick 6.3.8) and my
models get saved, but the attachments are essentially ignored.. no
errors in the logs, nothing.. mod_rails just pretends I didnt just ask
it to upload a file

Anyone else deal with this issue?

[Jonathan Yurek]

Are you sure that imagemagick is in the $PATH available to Apache/
Passenger?

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[kbingman]

I have a similar problem, but in reverse. I have a few production
sites on slicehost using mod_rails; they use paperclip and work
perfectly. Locally, I just set up mod_rails for testing purposes on
two machines. The resizing doesn't work on either of them... The image
is uploaded, but no thumbnails are generated. Switch the same app over
to mongrel and it works.

convert is in /usr/local/bin/convert, which is also in my path. My VPS
has it is /usr/bin/convert, but that is the only difference I can come
up with so far. Oh... the server is Ubuntu(hardy) and works fine,
locally I am on 10.5.4...

Keith Bingman
ke...@keithbingman.com

[Jonathan Yurek]

I'm not sure about this, but don't mod_rails apps run as the same user
as Apache? That would mean that what's in your personal $PATH doesn't
carry over. You should try specifying the path
("Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = '...'" in config/
initializers/paperclip.rb) and see if that works.

[kbingman]

Awesome. You made my day. That worked nicely.

Keith

[Andrew Vit]

Man, I wish that was documented somewhere... Would have saved me a ton
of time.

--Andrew

[Marcus]

Ahhh I'm just glad to have finally found it. Thanks for the tip
Jonathan. My initializers/paperclip.rb ended up looking like this (OS
X locally, Ubuntu on the server):

if RAILS_ENV == "development"
Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = '/opt/local/bin/'
else
Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = '/usr/bin/'
end

[Tim Haines]

Hey Marcus,

I did almost exactly the same, except my test environment is the same as development..

Tim.

[craig t mackenzie]

You can actually just store the path in your enviroments files, like
so:

IMAGE_MAGICK_PATH = "/opt/local/bin"

then your initializer looks like this:

Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = IMAGE_MAGICK_PATH

Bit DRYer.

-craig

[Chris Simmons]

I'm having this problem on Mediatemple's DVs... I tried setting the
option in my initializer, but still no luck.

My head hurts from banging it against my desk. Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Chris


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