Prevent carrierwave prepending `/uploads/`

Question

Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick here, but carrier wave appears to have an infuriating feature where it prepends /uploads/ to the attribute an uploader is mounted to:

Observe:

<%= debug attachment %>

--- !ruby/object:PostAttachment
attributes:
  id: 27
  post_id: 75
  avatar: xoCXDRSa911peGZ4lFJ7cQ==.gif
  created_at: 2014-04-01 02:38:03.197465000 Z
  updated_at: 2014-04-01 02:38:03.197465000 Z

The avatar is what I want to access, and yet when I do this:

<%= attachment.avatar %>

I get this:

 /uploads/xoCXDRSa911peGZ4lFJ7cQ%3D%3D.gif

Argh! Obviously I could gsub! that /uploads/ away but is there a configuration i can set?

Answer 1

class MyUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  def store_dir
    'public/my/upload/directory'
  end
end 

This works for the file storage as well as Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files. Define store_dir as nil if you'd like to store files at the root level.

From the Carrierwave Github page