Frederick Cheung wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 3:45 pm, Milan Dobrota <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm mostly interested in mp3 files. I'm supposed to build a music store >> app. Where should you keep files (s3?). And what's more important how do >> you protect other people from using the same link? I guess you have to >> generate it dynamically. Is there any other solution or maybe any plugin >> available? > > Something like X-Send-File (apache) or X-Accel-Redirect (nginx) allows > you to use apache/nginx to do the actual heavy work of transferring a > large file to the client, while still letting your rails app control > access. These both assume the file is on the same server as the one > running your instance of apache/nginx
Use Paperclip, and put the files on a shared mount that all of your servers can see. (If you cluster.) Put the files in a folder named after a hash of today's date + a salt - a password. Concatenate the date to the password and hash the whole thing, then write a cron that renames the folder every day. Paperclip has an option to set the filesystem path dynamically, like routes.rb. Put the hash into this path, and serve the files freely. Nobody can hot-link them because the hash will change daily. -- Phlip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
