# Rails "pasteboard"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 9, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959 "2006-06-09T22:18:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/1 "2006-06-09T22:18:28Z")
Hello all, I’m looking to setup a simple network “pasteboard” for files within my organization, to circumvent people trying to email 50 meg files and me being unwilling to open up our mail server for massive email transfers. I’ve seen the pasteboard idea elsewhere where you can go and paste code or log files or whatever, and then they just fall off an hour or a day later. Has anyone done this already with Rails? It seems like a pretty simple little app to write up, but I just wanted to ask first. One thing that might be tricky is making sure the application continues to operate while largish (700 MB? over a gig?) files are transferred into the pasteboard. thanks for everything List! -Andre ---
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/2 "2006-06-09T22:24:13Z")
Andre, Have you looked into using a CMS at all? - Robert D. [http://www.techcfl.com](http://www.techcfl.com) ---
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/3 "2006-06-09T22:32:00Z")
On 6/9/06, Andre T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > One thing that might be tricky is making sure the application continues to > operate while largish (700 MB? over a gig?) files are transferred into the > pasteboard. That shouldn’t be a problem. No difference on it being 10mb or 1000mb. It’s just data written to the file system. > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/4 "2006-06-10T01:10:53Z")
On 9-jun-2006, at 22:17, Andre T. wrote: > One thing that might be tricky is making sure the application > continues to operate while largish (700 MB? over a gig?) files are > transferred into the pasteboard. ## Have you tried [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace) ? Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl ---
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/5 "2006-06-09T23:00:13Z")
Yup, I’m currently using drupal 4.7.0. and in a way it’s kinda dumb to try tying Rails into the mix on a apache/php/mysql only server at the moment. it’s just that nothing jumped out at me within the drupal “arena”. there is a file upload module and I spose with a little bit of database code I could have items fall off into the nether after a period of time… ---
**Author:** ![andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@andreteves](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreteves)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-pasteboard/62959/6 "2006-06-10T01:44:07Z")
> On 6/9/06, Andre T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > One thing that might be tricky is making sure the application continues to > > operate while largish (700 MB? over a gig?) files are transferred into the > > pasteboard. > > That shouldn’t be a problem. No difference on it being 10mb or 1000mb. > It’s just data written to the file system. Just watch the timeouts and max post size stuff… I know that PHP has several configuration options you’re going to hit at that level (well, _way_ below that level). If it’s within your organization why wouldn’t a network share in which you automatically remove old files work just as well? Unless there are privacy issues… -philip