Old image kept on cloudinary

[Nkadze]

Hi,
When I'm updating image from rails form, through update_attributes and carrierwave uploader, on cloudinary both: new and old images are kept. Is it possible to override this behavior?
Thanks in advance.

[idobarnoam]

Hi @Nkadze

Could you maybe share a code snippet so we could verify we are on the same page?

Also if you could share the versions that are being used of your Ruby, Rails, Cloudinary GEM and CarrierWave installations we could take a closer look.

[Nkadze]

@idobarnoam, Thanks for quick response,

Those are package versions:

ruby '2.3.1'
'rails', '~> 5.1.5'
cloudinary (1.9.1)
carrierwave (1.2.3)

Uploader:

class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  include Cloudinary::CarrierWave

  process resize_to_fit: [1920, 1080]

  version :small do
    cloudinary_transformation \
    gravity:      'auto',
    width:        150,
    height:       100,
    crop:         'fill',
    quality:      'auto',
    fetch_format: :auto
  end

end

Model:

mount_uploader :featured_image, ImageUploader

Update Code:

obj.update_attributes(remote_featured_image_url: url)

or:

@model.update(model_params)
#--------------
def model_params
   params.require(:model).permit(:name, :featured_image, :featured_image_cache)
end

[taragano]

Thank you @Nkadze. We're taking a look and we'll let you know of any insights.

[toyflish]

I have the same problem, updating an attachment through a fileupload creates a new file on cloudinary leaving the old one untouched. If I look at the carrier_wave.rb file, there is only a Cloudinary::Uploader.destroy call in the delete method, but no after_update functionality to destroy the old public_id.

[toyflish]

I fixed it by adding a callback to my uploaders. Since carrierwave stores the public_id within an identifier with resource_type ... and the destructuring method is not modular, I choose to initialize a new CloudinaryFile object and call the delete method.

class CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  # has to be included before after :store
  include Cloudinary::CarrierWave

  after :store, :cleanup_changed

  def cleanup_changed(_arg)
    was_identifier = self.model.saved_changes[mounted_as][0]
    unless was_identifier.nil?
      was_file = CloudinaryFile.new(was_identifier, self)
      was_file.delete
    end
  end
end