The easy way to display this is to just store the binary data of the
file.

So you'd have a blob column called image...

Model.create(
  :name => 'john',
  :image => File.read("/Path/To/Image/File/john.jpg")
)

Check out 
http://www.mattberther.com/2007/10/19/uploading-files-to-a-database-using-rails/
for some image handling tips.


On Oct 12, 11:19 pm, Cedric Ced <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i would like to create test data for my client using migration.
>
> for example:
> Model.create(
> :name => 'john',
> :age => '28'
> )
>
> how would one do that for the file_column "image" field? i have tried to
> give the name of the file XXXX.jpg, but i get the following error
> message:
>
> "Do not know how to handle a string with value 'XXXXX.jpg' that was
> passed to a file_column. Check if the form's encoding has been set to
> 'multipart/form-data'."
>
> thanks a lot
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