Amazon S3 Plug-In for Rails?

Rails
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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?

Hunter

2

Hi Hunter,

I havn’t seen any S3 plugins for simple file storage.

This would be interesting - I’m pretty much in the same boat that you
are. Using S3, but in a very implementation-specific way.

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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.

http://practicalmadness.com/2006/07/fun_with_textmate_and_amazon_s

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.

  • DD
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HH wrote:

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.