On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 11:28:58 PM UTC-4, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > On Oct 29, 2018, at 10:08 PM, fugee ohu <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 10:14:44 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 11:54, fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 4:48:42 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 05:08, fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do I create an image object from a remote image url in rails console > > > > What do you mean by image object? > > > > > > An object returned by Nokogiri as a result of selecting a css.("a") > element containing <img src="..."> > > > > That doesn't make sense, you ask how to create an image object, then say > that an image object is an object returned by nokogiri. So to create it > all you have to do is make that request to nokogiri. > > > > Colin > > > > > > I'm trying to insert an image into the assets table from web scraping > Scraping gets me the src of the image I don't know if I should submit a > form or do a raw insert in my script > > Read the documentation for your file upload package -- I believe you > mentioned ActiveStorage -- about uploading from a URL. This is a common > feature in many file attachment systems. CarrierWave, Shrine, CarrierWave, > even Paperclip have a way to do this. > > It usually amounts to something like > > require 'open-uri' > file = open(remote_url).read > @your_instance.file = file > @your_instance.save # (the file should be persisted locally) > > Walter > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9f8ba9af-0ad0-4fd0-856b-0f236c76149b%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Thanks, I'll use Carrierwave because when I googled "ActiveStorage remote file upload" what I found was a discussion where someone says you can't do this in ActiveStorage but you can with Carrierwave
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