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# Paperclip Meta 

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Add width, height, and size to paperclip images.

Paperclip Meta gets image dimensions after `post_process_styles` using paperclip's `Geometry.from_file`.

### Setup

Add paperclip-meta to Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'paperclip-meta'
```

Create migration to add a *_meta column:

```ruby
class AddAvatarMetaToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :users, :avatar_meta, :text
  end
end
```

Rebuild all thumbnails to populate the meta column if you already have some attachments.

Now you can grab the size from the paperclip attachment:

```
<%= image_tag user.avatar.url, size: user.avatar.image_size %>
<%= image_tag user.avatar.url(:medium), size: user.avatar.image_size(:medium) %>
<%= image_tag user.avatar.url(:thumb), size: user.avatar.image_size(:thumb) %>
```

### Internals

The meta column is simple hash:

```ruby
style: {
  width:  100,
  height: 100,
  size:   42000
}
```

This hash will be marshaled and base64 encoded before writing to model attribute.

`height`, `width`, and `size` methods are provided:

```ruby
user.avatar.width(:thumb)
=> 100
user.avatar.height(:medium)
=> 200
user.avatar.size
=> '60x70'
```

You can pass the image style to these methods. If a style is not passed, the default style will be used.

### Alternatives

https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/wiki/Extracting-image-dimensions

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
paperclip-meta-0.6.0	README.md