PaperclipAttachmentRemover

This plugin used for delete attachment created by paperclip. It provides two methods for this:

attachment_remover_observe

used for to point out that attachment attributes needs to be observed for removing. You can point out multiple attributes with paperclip attachment

attachment_remover_name_for

used for getting correct form field name (usually checkbox) that should trigger attachment removing

Installation

sudo gem install paperclip_attachment_remover

Usage

In your model:

SomeThing << ActiveRecord::Base

  has_attachment :icon

  attachment_remover_observe :icon

end

In your update form:

form_for @something do |f|

  f.label :icon, 'Icon picture'
  f.file_field :icon

  f.label attachment_remover_name_for(:icon), 'Remove existing icon picture'
  f.check_box attachment_remover_name_for(:icon)

end