CarrierWave's rails image uploader's controller isn't accessible to 'static_pages#home'

Question

In order to be able to manage a handful of sample images on my rails app's homepage I created an image uploader using CarrierWave.

The problem I'm having is my image_uploader's controller isn't accessible to the homepage at root 'static_pages#home'. Is there a way I can make the uploader's controller accessible to my (mostly) static 'static_pages#home'?

For now the only way I could get it to work is by moving my home page index from /app/views/static_pages/home.html.erb to /app/views/covers/index.html.erb and changing the route, but this seems like a poor workaround.

Thanks for any help.

Update:

As @Udaykumardas suggested below I created a app/models/static_page.rb file containing

class Cover < ActiveRecord::Base
  mount_uploader :photo, PhotoUploader # Tells rails to use this uploader for this model.
end

but now i get the following error:

NoMethodError in StaticPagesController#home
undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

referring to <% @covers.each do |cover| %>

Here is my routes info in case it helps

  get 'covers/index'
  get 'covers/new'
  get 'covers/create'
  get 'covers/destroy'

  get 'password_resets/new'
  get 'password_resets/edit'

  get 'account_activations/edit'

  get 'sessions/new' 

  root                'static_pages#home'
  get    'contact' => 'static_pages#contact'
  get    'signup'  => 'users#new'
  get    'login'   => 'sessions#new'
  post   'login'   => 'sessions#create'
  delete 'logout'  => 'sessions#destroy'

  resources :users
  resources :account_activations, only: [:edit]
  resources :password_resets,     only: [:new, :create, :edit, :update]
  resources :microposts,          only: [:create, :destroy]

  resources :covers, only: [:index, :new, :create, :destroy]

I'm unsure if the bottom line needs to be changed to resources :static_pages, only: [:index, :new, :create, :destroy]. I have tried this and it results in a different error as follows:

NameError in StaticPagesController#home
undefined local variable or method `new_cover_path'

Thanks again for any help.

Answer 1

Use mount_uploader :image, ImageUploader in StaticPage.rb file.