On Jun 23, 2011, at 2:05 PM, ylluminate wrote: > I'm converting over an old php project in which I simply stored > filenames within a db and pointed to a server path for the images. > > I'm leaning towards a Heroku installation plus my own CDN and was > curious which path you may have found for managing image uploads. > Presently I see a few recipes involving Paperclip on the recipes, but > I just want to perform a sanity check here first. I'm going to have > Properties that will have multiple images, but one is the master image > and has to be marked as such by the admin. Traditionally I simply > used ImageMagick with `mogrify` to process files as they came into the > system so that there would be different thumbnail sizes as appropriate > and then when a property was deleted, it would also clean out these > thumbnails. > > What would be the cleanest mechanism to handle this given the scenario > of needing a master image + diff sized thumbnails while deploying to > Heroku and my own CDN (S3 or just an SFTP server)? Using Hobo 1.3RC.
Typically, I'd use Paperclip and a PropertyImage model with a "master" boolean and some callback plumbing to make sure that exactly one record (for a given Property) has the bit set. Paperclip can do the whole post-processing routine (scaling, clipping, etc). I've heard good stuff about Carrierwave, but I've also heard that it's a fairly radical departure from the "old-school" style of handling file uploads (vs. Paperclip which is an evolved version of attachment_fu / file_column). I've *not* heard of anybody on the list integrating Carrierwave with Hobo, so there may be some bumps along the way if you go that route. S3 seems like the standard way of handling these uploads for apps on Heroku; if you're already setting up your own "server" to take uploads then it doesn't seem to make much sense to be using Heroku... --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" 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/hobousers?hl=en.
