thanks Casey - you no doubt correct :) I'll run with your suggested 'don't over-engineer' concept...
2009/9/25 daphonz <[email protected]>: > > Greg, > > It sounds like you have a contradicting desire here. You say you want > the uploads to be served directly by the Apache server (so you don't > have Rails touching it), but you still want some form of > authentication to make sure people can access it (which I imagine is > what your Rails app is doing). > > The overhead from processing a Rails request is quite minimal, > especially is you're just doing some sort of user authentication and > not some complex query/data gathering. My recommendation would be to > use something like Paperclip (http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/ > paperclip) to help you upload files to your webserver, but protect > access by serving the files through a Rails controller (something like > this: http://www.therailsway.com/2009/2/22/file-downloads-done-right). > > And again, if you're really, really concerned about your server > overhead (like you'll be getting tens of thousands of requests per > hour), you can always move some of this logic into Rails Metal to > decrease the overhead, but, again, it's unlikely that you'll need to > do so. > > -Casey > > On Sep 24, 4:52 pm, Greg Hauptmann <[email protected]> > wrote: >> (bump - still really interested in response if someone is knowable in this >> area) >> >> 2009/9/23 Greg Hauptmann <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi, >> >> > Are there any Rails/Apache guru's that might know if it's possible >> > (and how) to have the ability for users to upload their content to my >> > RoR application but then subsequent access to such static content >> > would be: >> >> > a) served by APACHE web server [to avoid the overhead of going via >> > Rails], but >> > b) still want to have an authentication/authorisation check to >> > occur before they can access the content >> >> > The constraint is I'm onhttp://dreamhost.com/shared platform where I >> > have only access to the Apache .htaccess file and I can't add my own >> > Apache modules. >> >> > http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Apache >> > http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Htaccess >> > http://wiki.dreamhost.com/KB_/_Unix_/_.htaccess_files >> >> > thanks >> >> -- >> Greghttp://blog.gregnet.org/ > > > > -- Greg http://blog.gregnet.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
