How to rewrite helper wicked_pdf_image_tag to work with paperclip images

[denoww]

To works with images from paperclip i rewrite this method

  def wicked_pdf_image_tag(img, options={})
    if img[0].chr == "/" # images from paperclip
      new_image = img.slice 1..-1
      image_tag "file://#{Rails.root.join('public', new_image)}", options
    else
      image_tag "file://#{Rails.root.join('public', 'images', img)}", options
    end
  end

[davidray]

Thanks. That totally works - I needed that!

[manfe]

Works for me too!

Thanks!

[corroded]

Is there no pull request for this one yet?

[germanotm]

Didn't work for me because my image was not in public folder.
So instead of use wicked_pdf_image_tag i use image_tag with the path on HD to the image.
Ex:

image_tag model_with_paperclip.attached_file_name.path(:style)

and the image render properly in pdf.

[bobbyworx]

Hi! Where should I rewrite the method? Inside application_helper.rb?

[unixmonkey]

@bobbyworx

Exactly.

[alain-andre]

@germanotm thanks for the tip. It took me age to think using image_tag instead of wicked_pdf_image_tag for my images stored on AWS with paperclip.

[rdetert]

I had the same issue using Dragonfly. Got around it by doing this:

=image_tag "file://#{document.image.path}"

instead of the usual:

=image_tag document.image.url

Loading the absolute image.remote_url from AWS S3 did not do the trick either, to my surprise.