2 errors prohibited this post from being saved. Paperclip ffmpeg

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2 errors prohibited this post from being saved:

-Video content type is invalid -Video is invalid

I'm trying to upload videos to my site locally in dev using the Paperclip Gem however, I either get a black screen with a play button that does not play the video or I get the above error message when uploading videos. I am using Rails 4.0.

Can someone please direct me in the right direction on how to get rid of this error and using the Paperclip Gem in order to successfully upload videos?

Model

    class Post < ActiveRecord::Base

    belongs_to :user

    has_attached_file :image, :styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb => "100x100>" }

    has_attached_file :video, :styles => {:mp4 => { :geometry => "300x300", :format => 'mp4' },:thumb => { :geometry => "150x150>", :format => 'jpg', :time => 5 }
        }, :processors => [:ffmpeg]



    validates_attachment_content_type :image, :content_type => ["image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/png", "image/gif"]
    validates_attachment_content_type :video, :content_type => ["video/mp4", "video/mov", "video/mpeg","video/mpeg4", "video/AVI"]

    validates :description, presence: true
    validates :image, presence: false
    validates :video, presence: false

end

Show.html

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-offset-4 col-med-8">
        <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading center">
            <%= image_tag @post.image.url(:medium) %>
            <%= video_tag @post.video.url(:medium), controls: true, type: "video/MOV" %>
        </div>
        <div class="panel-body">
        <p><%= @post.description %></p>
        <p><strong><%= @post.user.name if @post.user %></strong></p>

    <% if @post.user == current_user %>
        <%= link_to edit_post_path(@post) do %>
        <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-edit"></span>
        Edit
      <% end %>
    <% end %>
    <%= link_to 'Back', posts_path %>
    </div>
</div>

Migration

class AddAttachmentVideoToPosts < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
     change_table :posts do |t|
      t.attachment :video
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_attached_file :posts, :video
  end
end

Post Controller

def post_params
   params.require(:post).permit(:description, :image, :video)
end

Config/enviroments/dev

scout::Application.configure do

  Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/usr/local/bin"

Here is the link to my other question regarding this one. Thank you in advance.

Moustafa Sallam Moustafa Sallam · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-07T18:39:33

I can't comment so I will add my finding here hope it will help:

I noticed that you validate the image attribute for its content type and you validate video types for image.

validates_attachment_content_type :image, :content_type => ["video/mp4", "video.MOV", "video/mpeg","video/mpeg4", "image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/png", "image/gif"]

but you don't validate the video attribute for its content type, the video also should be validated for its content type otherwise it will not work, the correct content type validation for both image and video should be as the following:

validates_attachment_content_type :image, :content_type => ["image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/png", "image/gif"]
validates_attachment_content_type :video, :content_type => ["video/mp4", "video.MOV", "video/mpeg","video/mpeg4"]

2 errors prohibited this post from being saved. Paperclip ffmpeg

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