Rails - Sep 2009 - current best approach for Sending Files (streaming files e.g. images) in rails???

Hi,

Q1 - What''s the current most popular approach (plugin/gem or
otherwise) for sending files / streaming files (e.g. images) back to a
browser?

Q2 - Noting I''m on Dreamhost.com on a shared environment (so
don''t get
much access to Apache), I was going to stick the images in mysql.
Should keep things simple.  Later if the service really gets used or
response times are an issue I could change this approach (store them
in a directory I create in the Rails app, but not under /public I
guess).  This should be OK no?   Again I''m not sure how much access to
Apache with Dreamhost.com shared platform I would have and whether
there would be a well known more performant option here.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Apache


Background - So the main page would be referencing these images via a
Rails controller to ensure authentication occurs.  So it''s the
standard scenario of allowing a user to upload files/images, but when
they download them how to serve this back to them in an efficient
fashion.

Tks

Greg -

Check out
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000421

On Sep 20, 10:07 pm, Greg Hauptmann
<greg.hauptmann.r...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Q1 - What''s the current most popular approach (plugin/gem or
> otherwise) for sending files / streaming files (e.g. images) back to a
> browser?
>
> Q2 - Noting I''m on Dreamhost.com on a shared environment (so
don''t get
> much access to Apache), I was going to stick the images in mysql.
> Should keep things simple.  Later if the service really gets used or
> response times are an issue I could change this approach (store them
> in a directory I create in the Rails app, but not under /public I
> guess).  This should be OK no?   Again I''m not sure how much
access to
> Apache with Dreamhost.com shared platform I would have and whether
> there would be a well known more performant option
here.http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Apache
>
> Background - So the main page would be referencing these images via a
> Rails controller to ensure authentication occurs.  So it''s the
> standard scenario of allowing a user to upload files/images, but when
> they download them how to serve this back to them in an efficient
> fashion.
>
> Tks

Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Q1 - What''s the current most popular approach (plugin/gem or
> otherwise) for sending files / streaming files (e.g. images) back to a
> browser?
Put them in the public directory.  That way Rails'' involvement is 
minimized.
> 
> Q2 - Noting I''m on Dreamhost.com on a shared environment (so
don''t get
> much access to Apache), I was going to stick the images in mysql.
> Should keep things simple.  
No, actually it will complicate things, or so say people who''ve done it
this way.  Images belong in the filesystem, not the DB.

[...]
> 
> Background - So the main page would be referencing these images via a
> Rails controller to ensure authentication occurs.  So it''s the
> standard scenario of allowing a user to upload files/images, but when
> they download them how to serve this back to them in an efficient
> fashion.
Have you bothered to read the recent discussions on this list?  There''s
always a lot of talk of using Paperclip and send_file for exactly this.

Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
> 
> Tks
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