ActiveStorage::Service::CloudinaryService

With v5.2, Rails introduces ActiveStorage, to facilitate uploading files to cloud services and attaching those files to ActiveRecord objects. Out of the box, it comes with implementations for cloud storage services; Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Storage; with an extendible adapter for adding support for other storage services.

This gem extends the ActiveStorage::Service api with an implementation for Cloudinary cloud service. The implementation is a thin wrapper around the official cloudinary gem to provide necessary interfaces required to hook up cloudinary to the active_storage api. Serving as a middleman, it interprets active_storage requests and delegate to their cloudinary gem contemporary and parses the response as necessary. So you can work with Cloudinary much like you would any of the other active_storage services that comes out of the box.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cloudinary', require: false
gem 'activestorage-cloudinary-service'

And then execute:

$ bundle

In your Rails 5.2+ app, run:

  rails active_storage:install

This copy's over the active_storage migration for creating the needed tables and then run:

  rails db:migrate

Note: you can skip the above two steps if you already have active_storage setup or if working a new Rails 5.2 (the setup is automatically added)

Declare a Cloudinary service in config/storage.yml. Each active_storage service requires a name and the relevant configurations options. Basic configuration options for cloudinary are cloud_name, api_key and api_secret. These are available from your cloudinary account dashboard.

cloudinary:
  service: Cloudinary
  cloud_name: <%= ENV['CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME'] %>
  api_key:    <%= ENV['CLOUDINARY_API_KEY'] %>
  api_secret: <%= ENV['CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET'] %>

The env vars should correspond to their appropriate values as defined in your app. Or using rails credentials:edit to set the cloudinary secrets (as cloudinary:cloud_name|api_key|api_secret)

cloudinary:
  service: Cloudinary
  cloud_name: <%= Rails.application.credentials.dig(:cloudinary, :cloud_name) %>
  api_key: <%= Rails.application.credentials.dig(:cloudinary, :api_key) %>
  api_secret: <%= Rails.application.credentials.dig(:cloudinary, :api_secret) %>

See here for other supported configurations options that can be provided.

Tell Active Storage to use the Cloudinary service by setting Rails.application.config.active_storage.service. It is recommended to do this on a per-environment basis to enjoy the flexibility of using different services for different environment.

For example, to use the cloudinary service in the production environment, you would add the following to config/environments/production.rb

config.active_storage.service = :cloudinary

Currently, active_storage client-side upload doesn't work with Cloudinary. This because the cloudinary api doesn't, as at now, support the PUT request method used by activestorage.js library and as such client side uploads will error out with the message Method PUT is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Methods in preflight response.

Nevertheless, the necessary ground work for this is set and once either active_storage is updated to support more request type or Cloudinary enables support for PUT request method, it should work fine.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/0sc/activestorage-cloudinary-service. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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