First, before you go any further… check to make sure the image you’re trying isn’t just broken.
I visited the image in the browser and realized that the browser supported the format, so the broken preview had to be somewhere in filepicker.
In my case I was using a(n) .ico
file and since filepicker.io
only supports post processing on .jpg
and .png
I had to come up with a work around.
Once I realized the breakage was in the /convert
directive that
was automatically filled in for me by the rails gods, the search was
on. I dug through the application layer and the gem and I couldn’t get
it to relinquish its post processing madness.
So I did what any programmer would do. I hacked the preview to use the plain filepicker url instead of decorating it and it worked greatâ„¢. I used javascript but I’m sure the tangled mess you end up different will require different scissors. I wrote this in case it should one day help a frustrated programmer in need if nothing else, with the simple knowledge that he is not alone in his plight.