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We upgraded from Rails 3.0.1 to Rails 3.0.3 yesterday and sadly this broke file uploads for us in production. What do we conclude from this other than that we are missing integration tests for file uploads? Well, one noteworthy thing is that the Rails 3.0.3 release is not quite as backwards compatible as announced, at least not when it comes to file uploads. In Rails file fields in multipart forms are exposed in the params hash as an ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile object. As of a commit by tenderlove on the 5:th of October this class no longer inherits from Tempfile but instead delegates to Tempfile (i.e. tenderlove favored composition over inheritance like the GoF prescribes). Unfortunately, the UploadedFile class only delegates a handful of methods and not two important methods that we happened to be using, namely open and path. So now, for example when getting the path of the tempfile we have to fetch the tempfile first:

  params[:my_file].tempfile.path