Displaying a Carrierwave filename in the view

Question

I am trying to display the filename of a Carrierwave attachment in a Rails erb template. The following does not work:

<%= @page.form.filename %>
         


        

Answer 1

In your model's associated uploader class, define a filename method.

def filename
  File.basename(path)
end

You can then call

model_instance.file.filename

Works as of CarrierWave 1.1.0. This is a succinct restatement/amalgamation of kikito and Chris Alley's responses above.