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Requirements
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ImageMagick must be installed and Paperclip must have access to it. To ensure
### Ruby and Rails
Paperclip now requires Ruby version **>= 1.9.2** and Rails version **>= 3.0** (Only if you're going to use Paperclip with Ruby on Rails.)
If you're still on Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby on Rails 2.3.x, you can still use Paperclip 2.7.x with your project. Also, everything in this README might not apply to your version of Paperclip, and you should read [the README for version 2.7](http://rubydoc.info/gems/paperclip/2.7.0) instead.
### Image Processor
[ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org) must be installed and Paperclip must have access to it. To ensure
that it does, on your command line, run `which convert` (one of the ImageMagick
utilities). This will give you the path where that utility is installed. For
example, it might return `/usr/local/bin/convert`.
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Include the gem in your Gemfile:
gem "paperclip", "~> 3.0"
If you're still using Rails 2.3.x, you should do this instead:
gem "paperclip", "~> 2.7"
Or, if you want to get the latest, you can get master from the main paperclip repository:
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use them. This README is probably ahead of the latest released version, if you're reading it
on GitHub.
Anyway, if you don't use Bundler (though you probably should, even in Rails 2), with config.gem
# In config/environment.rb
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Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
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config.gem "paperclip", :version => "~> 2.7"
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end
For Non-Rails usage:
class ModuleName < ActiveRecord::Base
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More information about the options to `has_attached_file` is available in the
documentation of [`Paperclip::ClassMethods`](http://rubydoc.info/gems/paperclip/Paperclip/ClassMethods).
For validations, attachments can be validated with these Paperclip's validation methods:
For validations, Paperclip introduces several validators to validate your attachment: