paperclip_cloudfiles

Enables CloudFiles storage for Paperclip. Also provides a simple mechanism for defining default settings for Paperclip attachments. Be warned that this project is largely untested. It has worked for me in a limited number of specific cases, but as experience shows, this is no guarantee of general soundness. You’ve been warned.

Installation

sudo gem install erikhansson-paperclip_cloudfiles

Setup

environment.rb

config.gem 'erikhansson-paperclip_cloudfiles', :lib => 'paperclip_cloudfiles', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

production.rb (or some other source of configuration)

Paperclip::WithDefault.use_cloudfiles_options :cloudfiles => {
  :credentials => {
      :username => 'username',
      :api_key => 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz1234567'
    },
  :container => 'container_name',
  :base_url => 'http://xxxxyyyy.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com'
}

Usage

class Model < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_attached_file_with_defaults :image, :styles => { :display => "675>" }

end

What’s going on?

has_attached_file_with_defaults simply calls the familiar Paperclip has_attached_file method with a set of default options, found in Paperclip::WithDefault.options.

Paperclip::WithDefault.use_cloudfiles_options, sets this default options hash to some convenient default settings for CloudFiles. You can also set it directly using Paperclip::WithDefault.options=

You can also set different default settings for the test and development environments. In fact, the test environment automagically gets new default settings { :url => ‘/system_test/:attachment/:id/:style/:filename’ } to keep files uploaded during tests to comingle with actual uploaded files.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests