Well, according to the Basecamp forums, 37signals are planning on using
S3
for future storage from their Rails apps for customer data.
We use S3 with great success from a Rails app.
I’m curious - are there any S3 plug-ins out there or anyone with plans
for
one? Our support is very tailored to our need and not really suitable
for an
extraction without some re-work.
We might do it if no one else has something going?
As far as I know there’s no S3 plugin, but the Ruby libs provided by
Amazon for use with S3 are so simple that you could easily make such a
plugin yourself, or just use the S3 lib directly in a model. I’m not
using S3 right this minute on any Rails projects (though I’m going to
begin to add S3 support to a major app in a week or two) but I was able
to hack TextMate’s blogging bundle (which is written in Ruby) to use S3
instead of my weblog server’s file upload feature in an afternoon.
For my Big Project almost all of my S3-served files will be associated
with records in the DB, so the S3 code will be going into a model. Like
I said, the S3 libs are super-easy, and before you decide to invest any
time in a plugin (vs. using the libs directly) you should look at how
you plan to use S3 and decide where it makes the most sense to put the
code.
I’m curious - are there any S3 plug-ins out there or anyone with plans for
one? Our support is very tailored to our need and not really suitable for an
extraction without some re-work.
There are two implementations: first is plugin from Amazon, which can
be found in Amazon developers resources. Second is gem s33r
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/s33r/). Currently I’m using first one,
but looking at s33r.
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