Hey Paul,
In the cloud, the mongrels serving your app may be distributed across
many different servers. If they had to check a local watch folder for
uploaded files in the background and transfer those into S3, I see a
number of potential complexities that could arise. A simple one to
thi
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, DyingToLearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This might be a naive suggestion, but what if there were a reserved
> folder, and everything that my apps saved to that folder got put into
> HerokuAssets?
This is a cool idea Paul. My concern would be that it would be a
This might be a naive suggestion, but what if there were a reserved
folder, and everything that my apps saved to that folder got put into
HerokuAssets?
For example:
RAILS_ROOT/public/assets is the reserved folder
When my apps saves a file to RAILS_ROOT/public/assets/videos/user/
123.mpeg
In the b
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Eaden McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I ask what is the point of using this over S3 directly?
Sure. The answer is: easy of setup. You don't need to establish an
Amazon account, install anything, or do any configuration. You just
start using it.
But if y
Hi there,
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Morten Bagai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We've got a cool new feature for you called HerokuAssets.
Can I ask what is the point of using this over S3 directly?
Best Regards
Eaden McKee
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Slick. I am using attachment_fu for chapbook covers and avatars. I
just swapped out my storage statements and it looks like it's working
pretty auto-magically. The only thing I didn't anticipate is that pre-
existing filesystem storage images wouldn't link and display after I
modified the stora
Hello everyone,
We've got a cool new feature for you called HerokuAssets.
Many apps deal with static asset storage in some form - file uploads
being the typical example. In the distributed world of cloud
computing, storing such files in the local file system doesn't scale
well, so we want
