Yes, you're correct. For scalability reasons we only allow you to
write in RAILS_ROOT/tmp. Any persistent assets should be stored in an
external asset store such as S3 or CloudFiles.

You can read a bit more about the read-only constraint, and how to use
an external store here:

http://docs.heroku.com/constraints#read-only-filesystem
http://docs.heroku.com/s3

Best,

Morten

On Dec 18, 7:17 am, iamjediknight <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is such a newbie question, this is my first time looking
> at a cloud solution.    I haven't seen any references to a local file
> system.  So I am assuming there isn't one.  Is this true?
>
> I have a rails app that reads liquid templates off the filesystem, as
> well as content (i.e. images, html, etc.).   So will I need to store
> those via Amazon S3?   Is there another way to store content?

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