Allows attachment_fu models to fully use fixtures. Ideal for seed, sample or dev data.
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attachment_fu_fixtures ====================== This plugin enables models that implement attachment_fu to also use fixtures. It processes and stores the attachment file as if it had being uploaded. Useful if you use fixtures in your tests/specs and want to test with real attachments, but especially useful for, and intended to be used as, seed data fixtures. Fixtures are simple and convenient for seed/sample/dev data; they have built-in tasks (rake db:fixtures:load) and are automatically generated with scaffolds. Great for preview and staging environments where you want content and attachments to be available. Images, for example, can help a fair deal with presentation (think about your client viewing how the site is evolving) and to present a more realistic experience. Perfect for production seed data that requires attachments. Also useful in development, for when you use fixtures to populate the interface. Essential for front-end development, and to get a quick glance at the interface. Features ======== * Parses and stores attachment files, just like any upload would * Seamless integration with existing fixtures * Extremely simple to use * Keeps all model relationships, just like regular fixtures Dependencies ============ * Rick Olson's attachment_fu plugin * Rspec and SQLite if you want to run the specs * Rails, etc. Examples ======== To use, all you have to do is add a fixture for the attachment with an 'attachment_file' field, pointing to your attachment file. That's it! = fixtures/images.yml beach: title: kho phi phi beach attachment_file: test/images/maya.png All other fields required by attachment_fu will be automatically filled in. If explicitly specified in the fixture though, they take precedence. belongs_to associations are specified just like in normal fixtures. For example, for an image that belongs to a user: = fixtures/images.yml harbour: title: victoria harbour attachment_file: test/images/harbour.png user: mynyml To load the fixture data, cd to RAILS_ROOT and call rake db:fixtures:load #for test/fixtures rake spec:db:fixtures:load #for spec/fixtures TIP: If you also use fixtures for tests/specs, I recommend you create a separate set of fixtures to use as seed data. You can store them in another directory (e.g. db/dev_data, db/fixtures, or even categorize them per environment) and create a custom rake task to load them (you can copy-paste rails's from railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake and simply change the path). ----- The examples above use rails 2.0 style fixtures. If you're a bit confused by how fixtures are written here (e.g. because they don't have ids, etc.), check out http://railscasts.com/episodes/81 Installation ============ If you're using edge rails from the github repository, you can install with the built in plugin installation command ./script/plugin install git://github.com/mynyml/attachment_fu_fixtures.git Otherwise you can install manually with just a few steps o download the tarball at http://github.com/mynyml/attachment_fu_fixtures/tarball/master into your vendor/plugins directory o extract it o rename the extracted directory to attachment_fu_fixtures o delete the file you downloaded (you won't need it anymore) TIP: If you're on linux, the terminal commands for the above steps are: from witin your vendor/plugins directory: wget http://github.com/mynyml/attachment_fu_fixtures/tarball/master; tar zxvf mynyml-attachment_fu_fixtures-*.tar.gz; mv mynyml-attachment_fu_fixtures-*/ attachment_fu_fixtures; rm mynyml-attachment_fu_fixtures-*.tar.gz Tests ===== Tested with: * attachment_fu (r3179 and commit 3836c313d6) * rails (2.0.2 r9237 and 2.0.2 gem) * rspec (1.1.4) To run specs: * make sure rspec is installed * make sure attachment_fu is installed * make sure sqlite is installed * run from RAILS_ROOT with rake spec:plugins Contributions ============= - Thanks to Patrick Crosby for submitting a patch for the model_class bug - Thanks to Jeff Webb for patching HABTM and STI handling Contact ======= If you have suggestions, comments, a patch, a git pull request, rants, doc fixes/improvements, etc., feel free to contact me: mynyml at gmail, irc.freenode.net #rubyonrails And if you find this plugin useful... I especially appreciate emails mentioning what sites/projects it's been used with Happy Hacking! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2008 Martin Aumont (mynyml), released under the MIT license
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