I've been developing an application in Rails 3.0.3 using Ruby 1.9.2. It is one of my first applications using Rails 3 and I am quite pleased with the progress thus far. However, I am wanting to add a feature that I have thought through, but I am not sure where to really begin.
Essentially, I am building a dumping ground for files, much like Dropbox, however this is mostly for personal storage. Currently, I have files (assets) being uploaded and placed into a folder. I'm using numerous gems to assist: Devise, for authentication Paperclip, Bcrypt, AWS-s3, mocha, and nifty-generators. Currently a user is only able to see his/her assets and folders. You can Share your folders with other users of the application, which works great. However, now I am wanting to integrate a feature that you could generate a token which would be used to link an individual not using the application to a file. I'm wanting to allow each asset to have numerous tokens in use, currently. Essentially, you upload a file (asset) and when you upload it, it gets an id (@asset.id). I have another scaffold I've created Token, which belongs_to :assets and has: public_key:string used_at:datetime asset:references I'm not sure how to move forward from here. I want you to click a link, and it will generate a key. Then you could email this key off to someone and they would click the link and download the file. That would be my starting point, from there I could work out the UI to control multiple keys, expirations,etc. For now, just a single use- once off key that once they use it, it sets used_at to that datetime and makes it unavailable. So unless @token.used_at.nil? , say sorry this token is invalid. Otherwise, allow them to download the file, or present them with a page/view.. etc Make sense? I'm just looking for direction, not the code :) Thanks, Justin -- 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.
