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• Jun

  17

  2008

  Attachment_fu sanitize filename, Regex and Unicode gotcha

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  Attachment_fu sanitizes the filenames on uploads to remove any funky character (not 0-9 a-z A-Z, underscore or a period). This is accomplished by the sanitize_filename private method in attachment_fu.rb file

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  def sanitize_filename(filename)
  returning filename.strip do |name|
  # NOTE: File.basename doesn’t work right with Windows paths on Unix
  # get [...]

  posted in attachment_fu, gotcha, ruby on rails by admin