# Net-amazon-s3 0.1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-amazon-s3-0-1-0/77472>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 28, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-amazon-s3-0-1-0/77472 "2006-11-28T05:25:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Grove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Ryan\_Grove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Grove)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-amazon-s3-0-1-0/77472/1 "2006-11-28T05:25:54Z")

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Howdy folks,

I recently released the first version of Net::Amazon::S3, a pure Ruby  
library for interacting with Amazon S3 via the REST API. I consider this  
release beta quality, but it currently has no known issues (although a  
few features, such as ACLs and logging, have not yet been implemented).

I see this library as having a few benefits over some of the existing S3  
libraries for Ruby:

- It’s not based on the (imho) unnecessarily complex Amazon example Ruby  
code.
- It has no non-Ruby dependencies (in fact, it currently has no  
dependencies outside the standard libraries), and is thus completely  
platform-independent.
- It supports uploading from an open IO stream and downloading in  
chunks, so large files don’t need to be entirely buffered in memory  
(this was a severe shortcoming of Amazon’s example code and some of the  
libraries based on it).

You can find Net::Amazon::S3 at [http://wonko.com/software/net-amazon-s3](http://wonko.com/software/net-amazon-s3)  
and in RubyGems as net-amazon-s3.

I’d love to hear feedback and criticism (constructive or otherwise,  
although I’m likely to ignore the latter).

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Grove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Ryan\_Grove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_Grove)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-amazon-s3-0-1-0/77472/2 "2006-11-29T02:55:36Z")

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Hey, that’s awesome, I’m working with S3 too. I just modified the  
Amazon code slightly, but it needs an open-source thing, people are  
just reinventing the wheel.