Problem when trying to upload image from Flex to PaperClip with creating thumbnail

Question

I'm trying to upload an image from Flex to Rails. It uploads fine if I just want to upload the original but when I tried to add Thumbnail I got the following error:

[paperclip] identify '-format' '%wx%h' '/var/folders/RH/RHekFGKME9uDJbX4d4DG3E+++TI/-Tmp-/stream,23830,0.jpeg[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: /var/folders/RH/RHekFGKME9uDJbX4d4DG3E+++TI/-Tmp-/stream,23830,0.jpeg is not recognized by the 'identify' command.>
[paperclip] identify '-format' '%wx%h' '/var/folders/RH/RHekFGKME9uDJbX4d4DG3E+++TI/-Tmp-/stream,23830,0.jpeg[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: /var/folders/RH/RHekFGKME9uDJbX4d4DG3E+++TI/-Tmp-/stream,23830,0.jpeg is not recognized by the 'identify' command.>

and I noticed for some reason in the DB that when I upload a file from Flex to Rails it puts the photo_content_type is application/octet-stream shouldn't be jpeg or something? I thought that might be the problem.

Do you know how to resolve this?

Answer 1

For the photo_content_type -- flash is known to not send the correct mime-type, so I recommend you use mimetype-fu to get the real mime-type

If that doesn't solve your problem comment here and include if this is your development environment and if you're on a mac. It sounds like your environment can't find the rmagick binary. Follow these instructions

/config/intializers/paperclip.rb

Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = ‘/opt/local/bin/identify’

Alertnative, this has worked for a colleague:

unless RAILS_ENV == "production"
  Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/opt/local/bin"
end

On my mac, it's in /opt/local/bin/identify ... if you're on a mac, type in "which identify" to find your binary.