In developing a Ruby on Rails application, when I pass a file object to a column in a model with a CarrierWave set, it will correctly populate that column as well as save it to storage. However, the file I want to upload to storage already exists on the storage, so how can I make the column with the CarrierWave set to correctly populate the string?
The case we are envisioning is when you can copy a file on S3 so that you don't have to download the file locally to pass it through CarrierWave.
However, I am wondering if the only way to do this is to download the file object, since it is not reflected purely by putting a string in that column.