# Accessing Strongspace from a rails app

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 5, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268 "2006-02-05T17:04:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janovetz)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268/1 "2006-02-05T17:04:32Z")

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Is there any information on how to go about accessing a strongspace  
account from a rails app? What are the preferred methods for doing  
this?

Are there plugins for RoR that support SFTP transfers and so on?

Jake

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**Author:** ![janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janovetz)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268/2 "2006-02-08T16:18:08Z")

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Jake J. wrote:

> Is there any information on how to go about accessing a strongspace  
> account from a rails app? What are the preferred methods for doing  
> this?
> 
> Are there plugins for RoR that support SFTP transfers and so on?

Does a anyone from the Strongspace camp have any input on this? It  
would be useful for me to add Strongspace storage capability to my app.

Jake

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**Author:** ![janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janovetz)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268/3 "2006-02-08T18:30:39Z")

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Jake J. wrote:

> Does a anyone from the Strongspace camp have any input on this? It  
> would be useful for me to add Strongspace storage capability to my app.

yes, this would be great. basecamp does the sftp thing to strongspace,  
although when you try to access the files that have been uploaded, it  
goes to the login page to continue, due to strongspace’s secure nature.  
it’d be great if there was a way around this, perhaps using a rails  
send\_file or something like that that would log in to the strongspace  
account to access the file and send it to the user, rather than the user  
having to log in. not sure if that’s possible with their model though.

toby

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**Author:** ![janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@janovetz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janovetz)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-strongspace-from-a-rails-app/101268/4 "2006-02-08T20:35:47Z")

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toby sterrett wrote:

> Jake J. wrote:
> 
> > Does a anyone from the Strongspace camp have any input on this? It  
> > would be useful for me to add Strongspace storage capability to my app.
> 
> yes, this would be great. basecamp does the sftp thing to strongspace,  
> although when you try to access the files that have been uploaded, it  
> goes to the login page to continue, due to strongspace’s secure nature.  
> it’d be great if there was a way around this, perhaps using a rails  
> send\_file or something like that that would log in to the strongspace  
> account to access the file and send it to the user, rather than the user  
> having to log in. not sure if that’s possible with their model though.
> 
> toby

I haven’t actually used basecamp’s file storage methods. How does it  
handle Strongspace – I guess I figured it provided a gateway through to  
Strongspace. Is this not the case?