Update paths of already-created Paperclip attachments

Question

I used to have this buggy Paperclip config:

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_attached_file :image, :storage => :s3,
                    :styles => { :medium => "600x600>", :small => "320x320>", :thumb => "100x100#" },
                    :s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml",
                    :path => "/:style/:filename"
end

This is buggy because two images cannot have the same size and filename. To fix this, I changed the config to:

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_attached_file :image, :storage => :s3,
                    :styles => { :medium => "600x600>", :small => "320x320>", :thumb => "100x100#" },
                    :s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml",
                    :path => "/:style/:id_:filename"
end

Unfortunately this breaks all URLs to attachments I've already created. How can I update those file paths or otherwise get the URLs to work?

Tom Lehman Tom Lehman · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-18T00:04:42

I ended up doing this manually with the aws-s3 gem:

Photo.all.map{|p| [p.image.path(:thumb), "/thumb/#{p.id}_#{p.image_file_name}"]}.each do |p|
  if AWS::S3::S3Object.exists? p[0], bucket_name
    AWS::S3::S3Object.rename p[0], p[1], bucket_name
  end
end

(Of course I had to repeat it for each attachment style)

Update paths of already-created Paperclip attachments

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