Backup ActiveStorage images in PostgreSQL rails

Question

I am trying to make a backup in the database with active storage, but I do not know where the images are stored. I did a pg_dump but I only got the data from the tables. Do you know how I could do it?

I am using a local ubuntu 18 lts server with postgresql to store the images.

Answer 1

There are implementations of ActiveStorage::Service that save the image data directly to the database.

Here's one such implementation. https://github.com/lsylvester/active_storage-postgresql

Usually not a good idea to store lots of binary in an RDBMS. However, if it's relatively few and simplifies your architecture, it may make sense.