Allow Users to Remove Uploaded Images with Paperclip

Allowing users to upload images is pretty straightforward in Rails – especially if you’re using the excellent Paperclip gem. I’ve blogged before about how easy it is to configure Paperclip to upload images to S3. However, there are no nice examples (that I could find) of allowing your users to remove images that are already uploaded. Let’s start with a user model which has an attachment and a view

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“ before_save :delete_avatar, if: ->{ remove_avatar == '1' && !avatar_updated_at_changed? } private def delete_avatar self.avatar = nil end”