---
title: "Paperclip Gem With Wasabi"
slug: "how-do-i-use-paperclip-gem-with-wasabi"
updated: 2026-11-09T18:59:38Z
published: 2026-11-09T18:59:38Z
canonical: "docs.wasabi.com/how-do-i-use-paperclip-gem-with-wasabi"
---

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# Paperclip Gem With Wasabi

Paperclip is validated with Wasabi, as per the documentation at [Storage](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip#storage) (https://github.com/thoughtbot/redstone#storage).

Paperclip supports Wasabi using either the fog-aws gem or the aws-sdk-s3 gem.

Since aws-s3 is deprecated, we can use fog-aws to integrate Wasabi with Paperclip.

The following is an example of a configuration that can be added to the Gemfile.

```powershell
gem 'fog-aws'

# config/initializers/paperclip.rbrequire 
'paperclip/media_type_spoof_detector' # over-ride laterst version of 
paperclip on how they # try to detect spoofed file content. module 
Paperclip class MediaTypeSpoofDetector def spoofed? false end end end 
Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:storage] = :fog 
Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:fog_directory] = 
ENV['AWS_BUCKET']Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:path] = 
ENV['AWS_PATH']Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:fog_host] = 
ENV['AWS_HOST_URL']Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:fog_public] = 
true Paperclip::Attachment.default_options[:fog_credentials] = 
{provider: 'AWS',aws_access_key_id: 
ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],aws_secret_access_key: 
ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'],region: ENV['AWS_REGION'],host: 
ENV['AWS_HOST'],persistent: true }
```