The plugin link should have been http://github.com/elcgit/s3-swf-upload-plugin/tree/master of course.
/Morten On Mar 2, 8:39 am, Morten Bagai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > If you're developing apps for clients you should absolutely migrate to > Heroku.com. That's where you'll get a stable and high-performance > platform for production use, and that's where you'll see new features > deployed in the near term. > > As Justin correctly points out, S3 is an excellent solution for asset > storage. It's not only good practice to separate asset storage from > your application code - it's also necessary to be able to scale > fluidly in a cloud computing environment. That's one of the reasons > we're explicitly enforcing this pattern through our read-only file > system. Btw, I'd advise taking a look at the ELC plugin > here:http://ruby.dzone.com/news/rails-gmail-simple-email-deliv > . It's very neat in that it does _direct_ upload to S3 without even > hitting your web app. Quite nifty indeed. > > With regards to email, you will have to request a blessing. Just go to > the "Other" tab of your settings page and fill out the form. It's > really just a precautionary measure to prevent abuse. Once you have > the blessing, you can easily configure your Heroku app to connect to > an external SMTP service. If you're just looking to test, I'd > recommend trying with GMail since it's free. Good instructions can be > found here:http://ruby.dzone.com/news/rails-gmail-simple-email-deliv. > If you're looking to shoot out significant volumes of email, look into > authsmtp.com. That's what we use for our email-sending needs here at > Heroku. > > As always, if you have anything in detail you'd like to discuss about > your app - feel free to email me directly. > > Best, > > /Morten > > On Mar 1, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Justin French wrote: > > > > > The Heroku file system is read-only, so you need to have a solution > > which uploads to Somewhere Else™, like S3. > > > I haven't attempted it as yet, but the classic attachment_fu has s3 as > > a storage option: > > >http://github.com/technoweenie/attachment_fu/tree/master > >http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu > > > And there seems to be no shortage of plugins on Github that seem to do > > this as well, like: > > >http://github.com/standout/s3storage/tree/master > >http://github.com/elcgit/s3-swf-upload-plugin/tree/master > > > At the very least, these should give you some inspiration on how to > > roll your own. > > > Justin > > > On 02/03/2009, at 11:05 AM, Chris Schumann wrote: > > >> I know Heroku and Herokugarden are changing very rapidly right now, > >> but I'm working on developing solutions for my clients. I'm going to > >> need things like (small) image uploading and sending e-mail even > >> for a > >> small private test. I know outgoing e-mail can be approved, but > >> there's no documentation for these features anywhere. > > >> Should I contact Heroku feedback (prodcloud)?, or since I haven't > >> moved off Herokugarden yet, feedback? > > >> Thanks, > >> Chris > > > --- > > Justin French > > [email protected] > >http://justinfrench.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
