Tempfile

The tempfile plugin makes it easier to reuse a single copy of an uploaded file on disk.

Shrine.plugin :tempfile

The plugin provides the UploadedFile#tempfile method, which when called on an open uploaded file will return a copy of its content on disk. The first time the method is called the file content will cached into a temporary file and returned. On any subsequent method calls the cached temporary file will be returned directly. The temporary file is deleted when the uploaded file is closed.

uploaded_file.open do
  # ...
  uploaded_file.tempfile #=> #<Tempfile:...> (file is cached)
  # ...
  uploaded_file.tempfile #=> #<Tempfile:...> (cache is returned)
  # ...
end # tempfile is deleted

# OR

uploaded_file.open
# ...
uploaded_file.tempfile #=> #<Tempfile:...> (file is cached)
# ...
uploaded_file.tempfile #=> #<Tempfile:...> (cache is returned)
# ...
uploaded_file.close # tempfile is deleted

This plugin also modifies Shrine.with_file to call UploadedFile#tempfile when the given IO object is an open UploadedFile. Since Shrine.with_file is typically called on the Shrine class directly, it's recommended to load this plugin globally.