# Boto - RESTful Ruby Content Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 3, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/boto-restful-ruby-content-server/116164 "2007-10-03T02:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chovy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@chovy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chovy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/boto-restful-ruby-content-server/116164/1 "2007-10-03T02:27:36Z")
I’ve open sourced one of my recent projects that I’ve been playing around with called Boto. Boto is a content server built with Mongrel that has a RESTful interface for creating, retrieving, updating and deleting content. Content is stored in Amazon S3 or in the local filesystem. Boto supports storage of metadata in its own file inside the S3 environment, allowing you to retrieve and modify content metadata without needing to resubmit the entire content object. Boto also supports multi-part messages so you can submit content and its metadata together. Each time content is created, updated or deleted in Boto a message is posted to Amazon SQS. These messages can then be consumed by Boto monitor classes which can then process the data or metadata for the purposes of search indexing, logging, etc. A couple of things that are not in Boto right now but I can envision adding in the future include content versioning and fine-grained access control. I can also see the potential for pre-built monitor implementations for doing indexing with various search systems such as Solr, Ferret, Google, etc. Right now the source is available from the RubyForge repository: [http://boto.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk](http://boto.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk) Once I finish the Ruby client library and clean up the internals I’ll publish a first release. Comments and questions can be directed to me at the moment until I get the mailing list set up. Sincerely, Anthony E.