Extracts and stores metadata from the file associated with this blob using a relevant analyzer. Active Storage comes with built-in analyzers for images and videos. See ActiveStorage::Analyzer::ImageAnalyzer and ActiveStorage::Analyzer::VideoAnalyzer for information about the specific attributes they extract and the third-party libraries they require.
To choose the analyzer for a blob, Active Storage calls
accept?
on each registered analyzer in order. It uses the
first analyzer for which accept?
returns true when given the
blob. If no registered analyzer accepts the blob, no metadata is extracted
from it.
In a Rails application, add or remove analyzers by manipulating
Rails.application.config.active_storage.analyzers
in an
initializer:
# Add a custom analyzer for Microsoft Office documents:
Rails.application.config.active_storage.analyzers.append DOCXAnalyzer
# Remove the built-in video analyzer:
Rails.application.config.active_storage.analyzers.delete ActiveStorage::Analyzer::VideoAnalyzer
Outside of a Rails application, manipulate
ActiveStorage.analyzers
instead.
You won't ordinarily need to call this method from a Rails application. New blobs are automatically and asynchronously analyzed via analyze_later when they're attached for the first time.
Enqueues an ActiveStorage::AnalyzeJob which calls analyze.
This method is automatically called for a blob when it's attached for the first time. You can call it to analyze a blob again (e.g. if you add a new analyzer or modify an existing one).