Class: ActiveStorage::Previewer

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Includes:
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Defined in:
lib/active_storage/previewer.rb

Overview

This is an abstract base class for previewers, which generate images from blobs. See ActiveStorage::Previewer::MuPDFPreviewer and ActiveStorage::Previewer::VideoPreviewer for examples of concrete subclasses.

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: MuPDFPreviewer, PopplerPDFPreviewer, VideoPreviewer

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(blob) ⇒ Previewer

Returns a new instance of Previewer.



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# File 'lib/active_storage/previewer.rb', line 20

def initialize(blob)
  @blob = blob
end

Instance Attribute Details

#blob ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute blob.



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# File 'lib/active_storage/previewer.rb', line 12

def blob
  @blob
end

Class Method Details

.accept?(blob) ⇒ Boolean

Implement this method in a concrete subclass. Have it return true when given a blob from which the previewer can generate an image.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/active_storage/previewer.rb', line 16

def self.accept?(blob)
  false
end

Instance Method Details

#preview ⇒ Object

Override this method in a concrete subclass. Have it yield an attachable preview image (i.e. anything accepted by ActiveStorage::Attached::One#attach).

Raises:

  • (NotImplementedError) 


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# File 'lib/active_storage/previewer.rb', line 26

def preview
  raise NotImplementedError
end