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:

• Setup Paperclip plugin with Amazon S3 to upload videos in rails
• Paperclip and Amazon S3

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:…”