There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.

As a surprisingly comfortable alternative I have found a command line tool s3cmd:

sudo apt-get install s3cmd

When you run s3cmd ...

Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many components that are affected.

When you are asked to give an estimate for the effort involved, go through the list below and check wh...

tl;dr: Always have your attachment path start with :rails_root/storage/#{Rails.env}#{ENV['RAILS_TEST_NUMBER']}/.

The directory where you save your Paperclip attachments should not look like this:

storage/photos/1/...
stora...

The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

Given you store files on Amazon S3 and you need to stream those files out to people while you don't want them to be able to distribute the content simply by sharing the S3 URL.

You could either mark the bucket as private and fetch the appropriate...

In this example we assume that not only the storage gem changes but also the file structure on disc.

A general approach

Part A: Create a commit which includes a script that allows you to copy the existing file to the new file structure.
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A flat folder structure can be cool if you have only a few folders but can be painful for huge amounts. We recently had this issue in a project with more than 100.000 attachments, where we used a structure like this `/attachments/123456789/file.pd...

There's no user interface to give an AWS IAM user read/write access to a selected list of S3 buckets.

Instead you need to attach an IAM policy like the one below to the user:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
      ...

While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals, it actually involves a lot of rules and caveats. It is very easy to create invoices where numbers don't add up and a few cents are missing....

S3cmd is a free command line tool and client for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3. S3cmd reads its configuration by default from `~/.s3c...