How to handle a file_as_string (generated by Prawn) so that it is accepted by Carrierwave?
It turns out StringIO.new( pdf.render )
should indeed work.
The problem I was having was that the filename was being set incorrectly and, despite following the advise below on Carrierwave's wiki, a bug elsewhere in the code meant that the filename was returning as an empty string. I'd overlooked this an assumed that something else was needed
https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave/wiki/How-to:-Upload-from-a-string-in-Rails-3
my code ended up looking like this
def perform
s = StringIO.new(pdf.render)
def s.original_filename; "my file name"; end
document = Document.new(
object_id: @object.id
)
document.file = s
document.save!
end
You want to create a tempfile (which is fine on Heroku as long as you don't expect it to persist across requests).
def perform
# Create instance of your Carrierwave Uploader
uploader = MyUploader.new
# Generate your PDF
pdf = GenerateReportPdf.new(@object)
# Create a tempfile
tmpfile = Tempfile.new("my_filename")
# set to binary mode to avoid UTF-8 conversion errors
tmpfile.binmode
# Use render to write the file contents
tmpfile.write pdf.render
# Upload the tempfile with your Carrierwave uploader
uploader.store! tmpfile
# Close the tempfile and delete it
tmpfile.close
tmpfile.unlink
end