On Jul 15, 12:39 am, Felix Schäfer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 15.07.2009 um 05:26 schrieb Marnen Laibow-Koser:
>
> > Felix Schäfer wrote:
> >> Am 14.07.2009 um 21:35 schrieb
> >> lph Bl :
> >>http://www.netbeans.org/kb/samples/ruby-depot.html
>
> >> That's the code from AWDWR (Agile Web Development with Rails), and a)
> >> I don't want to dl and install netbeans just to get the code,
>
> > I don't think you have to.
>
> Well, at least if I want it from the netbeans website :-)
>
> >> b) I am
> >> a little weary of code marked as "sample", but thanks anyway :-)
>
> > (Note: "weary" = "tired".  "Wary" = "cautious", which is what I assume
> > you meant.)
>
> I meant wary, but it seems I was a little weary when I wrote it *coughs*
>
> > With a request such as your original post, probably all you're going  
> > to
> > get is samples.  If you can be a bit more specific about what you want
> > and why you want it, perhaps you'll get better answers...
>
> Ok, specific use case here: we're planning a reunion with all past and  
> present members of a choir I sing in, because the choirmasters have  
> been leading this choir for the last 20 years, and we're trying to get  
> as much photographs and stuff together to make a nice collage/art/
> whatever. The depot would enable people to upload stuff to it that is  
> too big for mails, but too small for some sort of "burn it on a DVD  
> and send it per snailmail" scheme.
>
> Anyway, the depot should:
> - just work (which is why I'm wary of a "sample app", I don't have the  
> time to look over something in case it doesn't work),
> - not require any sort of registration or one-time key or anything,  
> because it won't run longer than 6 weeks, and it should be more of a  
> one-off thing for the users,
> - be simple, as in dead simple, because most of those people are at  
> best "dumb" users.

Paperclip (or attachment_fu, etc.) "just works," so you can make an
app with one controller and a page with a single form field with a
file selector and let your people loose on it. Other than that, I
can't think of any more on-topic help I can offer.

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