Re: [Rails] Access Client's File System from Rails application deployed at Heroku (for instance)

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:44 PM, sagar p. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> the Rails application gets the location string from
> the database and opens the matching local file
> from his or her computer. Is this possible???

To expand on Jordon's "Just no":

Heroku does not provide any local filesystem whatsoever. The only
files you can count on being there, are what your uploaded application
initially installs. The whole point of cloud-based automagically
scaling solutions like Heroku is that (assuming you spring for the
non-free plans) you get new resources spun up and down as needed.
Obviously they won't have all the local files that your app has
created.

HOWEVER...

There is a common solution to this, namely cloud *storage*. Store the
files on Amazon S3 or some such, and it will be a bit more complex
than local storage but still quite feasible... and cheap so long as
you don't store huge files or a huge number of them.

-Dave

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