Switch from carrierwave to active storage for avatars and attachements

[sojan-official]

• we use carrierwave aws : this should be changed to active storage for avatars and attachments

[nursoltan-s]

@sojan-official
Hi, can you assign me to this issue?

[sojan-official]

@nursoltan-s I have assigned the issue, let us know if you need any help.

[sojan-official]

@rojasTob Could you give this a check. if it's not the right fit, will find another one for you.

[rojasTob]

@rojasTob Could you give this a check. if it's not the right fit, will find another one for you.

@sojan-official I will try to solve it.

[rojasTob]

@rojasTob Could you give this a check. if it's not the right fit, will find another one for you.

Hi @sojan-official. I have read the documentation of active-storage and have read some articles about the migration from carrierwave to active-storage. So far, after installing active-storage, it creates two new tables 'active_storage_blobs' (will contain the metadata of the file) and 'active_storage_attachments' (will associate the model with the blob). But, what happens with the current columns that store information about the image for example in Contact model the avatar field? Could we need a migration? What do you think? Or do you have a plan to switch to active storage?

[sojan-official]

@rojasTob great questions 😄
At this point we don't have to care about backward compatibility. there is no production systems running the software. so we can switch over and call it day.

so basically

• add active storage
• remove the existing avatar field
• port the functionality to the active storage way and make sure it works

with active storage, people who want to run the system would have more options to choose the cloud provider they want with a simple switch of config. + carrierwave I believe would be slowly deprecated, in favor of the built-in solution from rails.

let me know if you have any questions.

[pranavrajs]

@karthik-sivadas Would you be interested to take a look at this one?

[karthik-sivadas]

@pranavrajs yeah sure. If no one working on this then I will start working on this.

[rojasTob]

@pranavrajs Hi, I was working on this. Sorry for my late message :(

[sojan-official]

@rojasTob You can continue working on this. Meanwhile, if you need any help feel free to raise a WIP/Draft PR and we will be happy to help.

[rojasTob]

@sojan-official Thanks!

[sojan-official]

hey, @rojasTob do you have a branch on which you are working? I am working on profile pictures for agents and would like to do it with active storage.

I could build on top of what you have, so we won't have to duplicate the effort.

[rojasTob]

Hi @sojan-official , sorry for my late answer. I was working on a branch, of a fork. These days I have not worked on that, sorry I was sick. I hope to continue this week. I apologize.

[sojan-official]

@rojasTob no worries, i hope you are feeling better now. We ended up adding active storage for the work we did over user model.

But avatars and attachments still remain with carrierwave, so feel free to continue with this issue. Good luck and thanks a lot again for working on this.

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