Get absolute URL for paperclip attachment

Question

Is it possible to get the absolute URI for a Paperclip attachment? Right now, the problem is that the production environment is deployed in a sub-URI (on Passenger: RackBa

Answer 1

You can add to your application.rb (or for specific enviroment in config/environments/*):

config.paperclip_defaults = {
    url: "http://my.address.com/system/:class/:attachment/:id_partition/:style.:extension",
    path: ':rails_root/public/system/:class/:attachment/:id_partition/:style.:extension',
}

Restart and reimport your images.

PS: obviously you can replace http://my.address.com with an environment variable.