Working With Rails

Minor tweak, but that should be:

page.alert(‘Your image has been uploaded sucessfully ’ + params[:image].original_filename)

I don’t agree with Josh. params[:image] is a string so you can’t just call original_filename on it.

I guess you’re using a plugin like attachment_fu or Paperclip for your uploads. Both store the original filename in the database. I think it’s called @your_attachment_model.filename in attachment_fu and @model_with_attachment.xxx_file_name in Paperclip (where ‘xxx’ is the value you pass to has_attached_file, e.g. has_attached_file :logo gives you @model_with_attachment.logo_file_name).

I guess you’re using page.alert in an AJAX response so you should have your model available anyways. Maybe the following will do the trick:

page.alert("Your image #{@your_model.filename} has been uploaded successfully!") # attachment_fu
page.alert("Your image #{@your_model.xxx_file_name} has been uploaded successfully!") # Paperclip