As far as my own server, I already have one set up that's not running ruby. It's simply acting as a file server w/o any services, but I may use S3 if I feel frisky at that point.
Sounds like CarrierWave could be fun to play with, but perhaps I'll hold on for that for a revision after I pop this out. What you described was precisely what I had done before and what I had planned now sans being familiar with Paperclip and doing this in Rails / Hobo. Thanks for that. -George On Jun 23, 3:10 pm, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
