We use Cloudfront's Custom Origin Server to point to our Rails app instead of an S3 bucket. This removes the need to sync assets to an S3 bucket. We used Open Government's tutorial [1] as a base and built upon it to improve it slightly [2].
[1] http://blog.opengovernment.org/2011/02/10/cloudfront-s3-rails-and-jammit-on-apache/ [2] http://dev.anideo.com/2012/01/03/how-we-setup-amazon-cloudfront-to-play-nice-with-rails.html On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Peter Keen <peter.k...@bugsplat.info>wrote: > I use asset_sync[1] on the one project where I push stuff to > S3/cloudfront. It works great and is basically automatic. > > [1]: https://github.com/rumblelabs/asset_sync > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM, railsnerd <rails.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there > > > > My site has a lot of static pages, and I'm hoping I can use Cloudfront > > to host them and stop requests hitting Heroku. > > > > (Yes I know there are other possibilities like memcached and varnish) > > > > Does anyone know of a good guide in setting this up? It's not very > > clear to me. > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy - Steve Jobs http://mclov.in | @iamclovin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
