I want to clone an attached image to another model. Either as:
a reference, such that the attachment won't be deleted until all the referring objects are deleted
by cloning the attachment and having it as a distinct replica...
How does rails handle ActiveStorage attachments? Do they get deleted automatically when the model goes or does it need to be done manually? Is there a reference counting mechanism?
This worked for me in Rails 6.1.3
model
.new_file
.attach(io: StringIO.new(original_file.download),
filename: original_file.filename,
content_type: original_file.content_type)