Passenger, Paperclip, and Permissions (another route)

pjmorse — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:41:28 +0000

We had issues with file uploads recently on a site using Paperclip to handle uploads and served with Passenger. The site worked fine in development, but in production the uploads would fail. Checking the production log showed that Paperclip was producing the following error:

[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #

A web search produced this railsforum thread with some helpful advice, specifically to set

Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/usr/local/bin"

in an initializer for Paperclip. Our problem was environment-specific, though, so we put it in the config/environment/production.rb file instead. No luck.

So I checked the Apache logs to see what error Passenger was producing. It wasn’t throwing an error of its own; instead we were seeing a lot of

[DEPRECATION] S3 support through RightAWS is deprecated. S3 support will be changed to AWS::S3 in a future version.

…in the Apache error log. It turned out that our development boxes were all using the aws-s3 gem, and the production box was still on RightAWS. When we installed aws-s3 on the server, the problem was solved.

So if you’re having Passenger and Paperclip problems, make sure you’re using the right interface with s3 as part of your troubleshooting process.

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Passenger, Paperclip, and Permissions (another route)