SRAS – An Asset Server for OpenSimulator

Features


* Asset de-duplication
* Compressed asset storage on disk
* Ability to disable serving of specific assets without deleting

Install


The packages of Ruby shipping with Ubuntu don’t include built-in zlib support. I prefer using RVM [ rvm.beginrescueend.com/ ] anyway.

Built & tested with Ruby v1.9.2.

Install via:

$ gem install sras

then copy the following text into “/etc/sras/sras.conf“ or

“~/.srasrc“ and edit as appropriate:

sras:

production:
    default_asset_dir: /srv/sras
    port: 8003
    log_file: /var/log/sras.log
    pid_file: /tmp/sras.pid

mysql:

production:
    adapter: mysql
    host: localhost
    username: sras
    password: sras
    database: sras

Running


Then just:

$ sras start

to start a single instance. In a production environment you would likely want to run several instances behind a reverse proxy like Nginx.

To see additional options:

$ sras –help

Testing


To test asset creation:

$ curl -d @test/test.asset -X POST -w ‘%http_coden’ \

http://yourserver.example.com:8003/assets/

You should get a 200 HTTP response, have an entry in your assets table, and have a file contain the asset data on disk.

To test retrieval of that asset:

$ curl -X GET -w ‘%http_coden’ \

http://yourserver.example.com:8003/assets/0193663d-44e4-4e6e-9a1c-8dd2febc5fc5/data

Mailing List


For SRAS-related announcements and discussion feel free to join the low-volume mailing list. You can join the list by submitting the form at lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sras-list

Mailing list members can email the list via [email protected]

List archives can be found at sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=sras-list