Why are RackMultipart* files persisting in my Rails /tmp directory?

Question

I\'m using Paperclip (2.3) to handle image uploads on a Rails 3.0.3 app running on Ubuntu. Paperclip is handling the uploads as advertised BUT the RackMultipart* files that are

Answer 1

The TempFileReaper is the Rack middleware thought to handle this issue.

http://www.rubydoc.info/github/rack/rack/Rack/TempfileReaper

Including this line in the application.rb solves the problem:

config.middleware.use Rack::TempfileReaper