Active Storage Attachment

Attachments associate records with blobs. Usually that’s a one record-many blobs relationship, but it is possible to associate many different records with the same blob. A foreign-key constraint on the attachments table prevents blobs from being purged if they’re still attached to any records.

Attachments also have access to all methods from ActiveStorage::Blob.

If you wish to preload attachments or blobs, you can use these scopes:

# preloads attachments, their corresponding blobs, and variant records (if using `ActiveStorage.track_variants`)
User.all.with_attached_avatars

# preloads blobs and variant records (if using `ActiveStorage.track_variants`)
User.first.avatars.with_all_variant_records

Methods

Class Public methods

with_all_variant_records

Eager load all variant records on an attachment at once.

User.first.avatars.with_all_variant_records
📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 45
  scope :with_all_variant_records, -> { includes(blob: {
    variant_records: { image_attachment: :blob },
    preview_image_attachment: { blob: { variant_records: { image_attachment: :blob } } }
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Instance Public methods

blob

Returns the associated ActiveStorage::Blob.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 31
  belongs_to :blob, class_name: "ActiveStorage::Blob", autosave: true
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preview(transformations)

Returns an ActiveStorage::Preview instance for the attachment with the set of transformations provided. Example:

video.preview(resize_to_limit: [100, 100]).processed.url

or if you are using pre-defined variants:

video.preview(:thumb).processed.url

See ActiveStorage::Blob::Representable#preview for more information.

Raises an ArgumentError if transformations is a Symbol which is an unknown pre-defined variant of the attachment.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 101
  def preview(transformations)
    transformations = transformations_by_name(transformations)
    blob.preview(transformations)
  end
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purge()

Synchronously deletes the attachment and purges the blob.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 51
  def purge
    transaction do
      delete
      record.touch if record&.persisted?
    end
    blob&.purge
  end
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purge_later()

Deletes the attachment and enqueues a background job to purge the blob.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 60
  def purge_later
    transaction do
      delete
      record.touch if record&.persisted?
    end
    blob&.purge_later
  end
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record

Returns the associated record.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 25
  belongs_to :record, polymorphic: true, touch: true
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representation(transformations)

Returns an ActiveStorage::Preview or an ActiveStorage::Variant for the attachment with set of transformations provided. Example:

avatar.representation(resize_to_limit: [100, 100]).processed.url

or if you are using pre-defined variants:

avatar.representation(:thumb).processed.url

See ActiveStorage::Blob::Representable#representation for more information.

Raises an ArgumentError if transformations is a Symbol which is an unknown pre-defined variant of the attachment.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 120
  def representation(transformations)
    transformations = transformations_by_name(transformations)
    blob.representation(transformations)
  end
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variant(transformations)

Returns an ActiveStorage::Variant or ActiveStorage::VariantWithRecord instance for the attachment with the set of transformations provided. Example:

avatar.variant(resize_to_limit: [100, 100]).processed.url

or if you are using pre-defined variants:

avatar.variant(:thumb).processed.url

See ActiveStorage::Blob::Representable#variant for more information.

Raises an ArgumentError if transformations is a Symbol which is an unknown pre-defined variant of the attachment.

📝 Source code 
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 82
  def variant(transformations)
    transformations = transformations_by_name(transformations)
    blob.variant(transformations)
  end
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