# Rails app for transfering/managing files/data

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 27, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398 "2010-01-27T15:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398/1 "2010-01-27T15:13:21Z")

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Hi,  
does anyone knows an application (hopefully on rails) which deals with  
file  
transfer and management. I mean in the sense of an FTP.  
My problems are that the client has only access to HTTP (port 80) and  
all  
the tools (like DMS, etc.) out there (like knowledgetree, etc.) are  
heavy  
(PHP) monsters with too many options. I just need file upload/download,  
remove, link the resources (with authentication or hashed url). If time  
and  
money wouldn’t be an issue I would do it myself, but hopefully I don’t  
have  
to invent the wheel again.

Thanks in advance

Chris

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398/2 "2010-01-29T08:50:26Z")

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Thanks Matt,

never tried S3 before and wanted to avoid extra costs.

Chris

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398/3 "2010-01-28T23:28:29Z")

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On Jan 27, 9:11 am, Christoph J.  
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> Hi,  
> does anyone knows an application (hopefully on rails) which deals with file  
> transfer and management. I mean in the sense of an FTP.  
> My problems are that the client has only access to HTTP (port 80) and all  
> the tools (like DMS, etc.) out there (like knowledgetree, etc.) are heavy  
> (PHP) monsters with too many options. I just need file upload/download,  
> remove, link the resources (with authentication or hashed url). If time and  
> money wouldn’t be an issue I would do it myself, but hopefully I don’t have  
> to invent the wheel again.

Have you considered an S3 based setup? What you’ve described is pretty  
much exactly what S3 does…

–Matt J.

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398/4 "2010-01-30T22:27:10Z")

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Granted, S3 isn’t free - but neither is most people’s time. Even a  
cheap hour of developer time (at, say, $30/hr) will pay to store 1GB  
on S3 for almost 10 years (at $0.15/GB\*month). That’s awfully close to  
free, unless there’s quite a lot of data…

–Matt J.

On Jan 29, 2:48 am, Christoph J.

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-for-transfering-managing-files-data/182398/5 "2010-01-31T08:15:56Z")

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Matt J. wrote:

> Granted, S3 isn’t free - but neither is most people’s time. Even a  
> cheap hour of developer time (at, say, $30/hr) will pay to store 1GB  
> on S3 for almost 10 years (at $0.15/GB\*month).

As long as you never transfer data in or out. 🙂

> That’s awfully close to  
> free, unless there’s quite a lot of data…
> 
> –Matt J.
> 
> On Jan 29, 2:48�am, Christoph J.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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