How can I set paperclip's storage mechanism based on the current Rails environment?

Question

I have a rails application that has multiple models with paperclip attachments that are all uploaded to S3. This app also has a large test suite that is run quite often. Th

Answer 1

Couldn't you just set an environment variable in production/test/development.rb?

PAPERCLIP_STORAGE_MECHANISM = :s3

Then:

has_attached_file :image, :styles => {...},
                  :storage => PAPERCLIP_STORAGE_MECHANISM,
                  # ...etc...