Re: [Rails] Problem processing text file after uploading

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:11 AM, David M. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Currently the model handles those files, saves some metadata (the
> extention and orig filename) then saves the file to the hard drive. Next
> it converts the doc and docx files to plain text and saves the output to
> a txt file.
>
> My problem is I want to copy the plain text contents of those txt files
> to the :body field in my database, but by the time those files are
> written no more changes can be sent to the data base (because all the
> file handling is done in after_save)

Wouldn't the obvious answer be to do the file handling in before_save?

And is there a reason to write the text to a file in the first place if you're
just going to save it in the DB?

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