Zip up all Paperclip attachments stored on S3

Question

Paperclip is a great upload plugin for Rails. Storing uploads on the local filesystem or Amazon S3 seems to work well. I\'d just assume store files on the localhost, but the use

Answer 1

You almost certainly want to use e.abstract.to_file.path instead of e.abstract.url(...).

See:

• Paperclip::Storage::S3::to_file (should return a TempFile)
• TempFile::path

UPDATE

From the changelog:

New in 3.0.1:

• API CHANGE: #to_file has been removed. Use the #copy_to_local_file method instead.