I’ve been listening to Happy Hardcore all day, so it might have had something to do with perking my brainwaves all on up. Whatever it was, today was fucking awesome.
Today I successfully created a proof of concept Rails application that uses FancyUpload, MooTools, Amazon AWS, attachment_fu, and mimetype_fu. This application allows seamless multi-file uploads to attachment_fu (which generates thumbnails flawlessly) and in turn stores the files to AWS’s S3 service.
To any non-programmers, this is probably not interesting, but shit, I had to do this by hand in PHP less than a year ago and I’m still battling with it. Enter Rails (and some brilliant plugins) and I have the whole damn thing up in a few hours. Not to mention that the whole upload/download is ultra secure and replicated across the globe with basically 99.99999% uptime. That beats my halfassed server petting zoo at the office by about six nines!
Hi Matt,
I’m trying to exactly do the same for a personnal project.
So far I only managed to get FancyUpload upload the files to a specified directory but I wasn’t still able to fill the database because I can’t figure how tell rails (2.0.2) to use the correct session (I use restful_authentication). Besides, my controller is totally unsecure for the moment, when I use before_filter :logged_in? in my upload controller, the file simply not uploads.
So I was wondering if you were willing to share sources or a bit of them to help.
By the way, nice job on restful_acl, it’s really helpful!
Best regards,
Pancho