Using AWS S3 Service with RoR Paperclip
Continuing from the last post, you might want to use AWS S3 for hosting the uploaded files. Actually the steps are pretty easy as described in the following links:
ps. If you are having an error like this
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (5 for 4)
this is probably because you have both the aws-s3 gem and right_aws, just change the environment.rb
as in the following link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550708/rails-paperclip-conflict-between-aws-s3-gem-and-right-aws-gem-how-to-solve
ps2. If you are planning to deploy to heroku add the gem to .gems file, or you will get an error like this “App failed to start” — your application is missing the following gems:…”
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Not long ago Amazon released official AWS SDK for Ruby (https://github.com/amazonwebservices/aws-sdk-for-ruby). It works pretty well with S3, supports American, European and Japanese S3 instances from the box and well maintained.
I have created a storage module for Paperclip called paperclip-aws (https://github.com/igor-alexandrov/paperclip-aws) that works with AWS SDK.
Feel free to use it. I hope that it will help.