file_field_tag : what was the original file name?

Question

My site allows users to upload csv files for processing. It all works fine, but on the response I'd like to report something like "Your file abc.csv processed OK".

Unfortunately I cannot seem to find the actual original file name in the params, even though Firebug tells me it's part of the post.

Any tips?

Thanks....

Answer 1

Try using debug on the results of your form.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html#debug

Answer 2

As Jarrod mentions in the comments above. Use params[:file].original_filename

Funny thing is, my form has two file upload tags (file1 and file2). One comes in as a ActionController::UploadedTempfile and the other ActionController::UploadedStringIO.

This may be a rails bug but it doesn't matter to me as both have the original_filename method.