[Rails] Re: Looking for a good resource on open-uri and FileUtils

You're probably better off starting by looking at Paperclip's S3
support, which is logically closer to what you want to do.

--Matt Jones

On Oct 3, 10:15 am, James West <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm needing to extend the Paperclip Storage module to handle external
> URL's so that I can upload my doc's/images to an external source rather
> than the app's local file system.
>
> The FileSystem module reads
>
>     module Filesystem
>       def self.extended base
>       end
>
>       def exists?(style = default_style)
>         if original_filename
>           File.exist?(path(style))
>         else
>           false
>         end
>       end
>
>       # Returns representation of the data of the file assigned to the
> given
>       # style, in the format most representative of the current storage.
>       def to_file style = default_style
>         @queued_for_write[style] || (File.new(path(style)) if
> exists?(style))
>       end
>       alias_method :to_io, :to_file
>
>       def flush_writes #:nodoc:
>         @queued_for_write.each do |style, file|
>           FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(path(style)))
>           result = file.stream_to(path(style))
>           file.close
>           result.close
>         end
>         @queued_for_write = {}
>       end
>
>       def flush_deletes #:nodoc:
>         @queued_for_delete.each do |path|
>           begin
>             FileUtils.rm(path) if File.exist?(path)
>           rescue Errno::ENOENT => e
>             # ignore file-not-found, let everything else pass
>           end
>         end
>         @queued_for_delete = []
>       end
>     end
>
> Now I figured that I should be able to make use of Open-URI to emulate
> the above functionality so that Paperclips expected behaviour is fully
> implemented.
>
> What I could do with is a good resource that can show me how I can
> emulate the same functionality with Open-URI.
>
> Any pointers to good examples, ideas, code snippets, examples, help
> etc... would be greatly appreciated
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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