On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Petros Amiridis <[email protected]>wrote:
> I want to save a yml file generated by the tolk gem. It's only for > development purposes, not for production. I mean, the file is going to > be downloaded by me, not by the users. Do you think there is a better > way to do it? It depends on how large it is. The free Memcache support will give you the ability to insert objects up to 1MB using just Rails.cache, up to 5MB total. You could also store it as a blob in your DB, which would ultimately get stored as a file anyway. Or you could use the free Redis to Go, or the free Mongo HQ. Lots of options when you don't need a lot of space and just need a place to tuck away a file. The tmp fs idea is just fine, so long as you're willing to regenerate the file whenever it's not available. If it takes longer than 30s to generate, you might be better off with the other two ideas, just for simplicity. One last idea that would work in production would be to use a 3rd party storage setup, like S3. Quite simple to use, and very very cheap (I regularly receive AWS bills of around $0.04 US. Hope that helps, Jimmy -- +1-919-627-7546 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
