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Problem Deleting Image From Rails/Heroku App

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John Judd

I am having some problems deleting images from the media library from within my app. I try to delete using the public id, see below.

    result = Cloudinary::Uploader.destroy(public_id)

This is the same id that is used with cl_image_tag to display the image after the upload, however the result['result'] returns not found.

The public id I am using is generated after upload by

    preloaded = Cloudinary::PreloadedFile.new(params[:media][:image_id])

    @media.image_id = preloaded.identifier

This code creates a id in the form of: v1406853798/media/nibbler_raise_wgkrrf.jpg 

I have tried calling the delete with variations of this string from the full string, to

    media/nibbler_raise_wgkrrf.jpg, 

    nibbler_raise_wgkrrf.jpg and,

    nibbler_raise_wgkrrf.

but all of these produced the same result: Not found.

Just wondering what is going on here.

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    Itay Taragano

    Hi John,

    This 'v1406853798/media/nibbler_raise_wgkrrf.jpg' identifier actually includes 3 different components:

    • The 'v1406853798' part is the version component
    • The 'media/nibbler_raise_wgkrrf' part is the image's public ID
    • The '.jpg' part is the format you tell Cloudinary to deliver your image in.

    Therefore, when deleting an image, you should use only the middle part, for this case - it's 'media/nibbler_raise_wgkrrf'

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