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Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2011-06-16T08:47:03Z

I've not had chance to play with it yet, but the latest Paperclip includes support for Fog - it'll probably be an easier way of supporting EU buckets than all this patching :)

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by John

2011-06-15T12:34:28Z

Im not sure if anyone is covering this thread but i have followed step 2 and i get this error when it comes to saving the file in the amazon bucket

The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your key and signing method.

Ive followed the code through and can login ok, access the buckets etc but when it comes to saving the file i get the error above.

Anyone have any ideas whats going wrong?

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Kaushik Shah

2011-03-18T19:21:55Z

@Tim, can you specify what error you are getting?

Checked Option 2 with S3 gem(v0.3.8).. Works like a breeze!

Thanks a ton, Rob!!

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Tim Brandes

2011-02-02T10:10:00Z

After trying several hours yesterday I couldn't get the S3 gem (0.3.7) working properly with Rails (3.0.3). I've tried with both EU and US Buckets but an attachment never got uploaded to S3. I am using the config/initializers/"s3_paperclip.rb":https://github.com/qoobaa/s3/blob/master/extra/s3_paperclip.rb provided by Jakub Kuźma and additionally a config/initializiers/"paperclip.rb":https://gist.github.com/807493 after "Jonathan Spies":http://www.jonathanspies.com/posts/6-Using-yaml-to-configure-default-options-for-Paperclip – I reckon this could be a source of trouble.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Jeremy Lecour

2011-01-13T08:26:43Z

I've had to deal with this yesterday, and as far as I can tell, it is now resolved by using S3 instead of AWS-S3 and copying its storage driver for Paperclip inside Rails.root/config/initializer.

Thanks for your various contributions on this issue.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Fredrik W

2010-11-09T21:17:19Z

I can't quite seem to get this to work with Rails 3. The initializer runs when the app starts but its monkey patches seem to get overriden when the models are initialized, since I keep getting:

no such file to load -- aws/s3 (You may need to install the aws-s3 gem)

If I modify the model to explicitly require the initializer after the first page-load, everything works until the servers gets restarted.. Any ideas?

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-10-11T23:02:45Z

To set S3 file permissions, pass the :s3_permissions option to has_attached_file and set it to :private.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-10-11T22:57:17Z

Thanks for the update Nick, I'll take another look at option #2 and see what needs fixing for the newer S3 gem.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Nick Rutherford

2010-10-10T16:43:37Z

I gave the 2 approaches above a spin just now while moving from att-fu database store to paperclip s3 store & got approach #1 working but not #2, the s3 gem is > 0.3 now, maybe issues from that.

Either way, thanks Rob for sharing your work!

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Refurbished Computers

2010-09-28T10:52:37Z

I have paperclip and the S3 gem set up in combination with delayed job in my application, but I can't see to figure out how to set new uploaded files to private instead of public read.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Uģis Ozols

2010-05-22T21:41:23Z

Thank you very much Rob. Just what i needed :)

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Stephane

2010-05-08T08:04:53Z

Thanks a lot Rob, i put s3_paperclip.rb into config/initializers/ directory and it works well now.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-05-03T20:55:10Z

The latest version of the S3 gem includes a time expiring URL method. Make sure you've got at least version 0.2.8 of the gem and use the s3_paperclip.rb in the extras directory and you should have all you need. You can view the source here - as you can see it now has the expiring_url method.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Stephane

2010-04-28T15:54:20Z

Hi Rob,

Thanks for this amazing post, you saved me hours of work !

Do you know if there is a workaround for time expiring URLs to access private objects ?

Because my project have to store only private documents on S3.

Stephane.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Ludo Haveman

2010-04-13T18:54:59Z

You saved me again Rob! Thanks a lot, I almost cannot believe I missed that typo. Anyway, you made my day!

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-04-13T16:25:53Z

You're welcome!

If you're using the current version of the Paperclip module that comes with the S3 gem then there is a little typo you need to fix here, it should be:

object.acl = @s3_permissions

I'd give that a try first and see if it helps.
Rob

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Ludo Haveman

2010-04-13T06:03:06Z

Rob, I want to thank you for a very useful blog post. It helped me out in at least seven different ways.

Jakub, thank you for a very nice S3 gem. As my site has it's base in europe, the European bucket support is also very welcome.

There is one thing though (there always is ;)) that I hope you can help me with. I have paperclip and the S3 gem set up in combination with delayedjob in my application, but I can't see to figure out how to set new uploaded files to private instead of publicread.

I tried setting :s3_permissions => 'private' in the file model, and tried searching for the place where the acl gets set in paperclip.rb. Hope you can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-04-02T16:40:35Z

CarrierWave is on my todo list for a future blog :)

I've submitted a patch for Paperclip to replace AWS/S3 with the S3 gem: you can try it out here.

I'll also send a patch to Jakub for including in the S3 gem itself over the next few days.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Alex Barlow

2010-03-23T10:53:12Z

Also note, Right Aws can be used with Carrierwave which is an awesome upload gem and im my opinion cleaner. As your upload logic is done in a separate model called an uploader.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Greg W

2010-03-04T00:16:53Z

Just wanted to say that you have some really useful posts on your blog. Your series on Paperclip and s3 have given me some great starts/ideas. Thanks for sharing your code.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-02-07T11:49:46Z

You're welcome Jakub :D I actually spent some time on Friday writing a patch for Paperclip, and I've also got some patches for the S3 gem itself (to better support Ruby 1.8.6 and add some missing features that Paperclip needs) - I'll send them over to you once I've finished them off.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Jakub Kuźma

2010-02-07T10:25:17Z

Thanks for describing my gem! I'll try to implement the stuff that you've mentioned. I wrote to attachment_fu and paperclip maintainers about the backends but nobody answered.

@ABT: I don't really know if the gem is threadsafe or not - it'd be nice if you can check it and submit appropriate patches if needed.

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by Rob Anderton

2010-02-01T08:42:32Z

Not sure what you've done differently to make it work, but even the Paperclip tests fail when run on an EU bucket.

As for thread-safety, it'd probably be best to check with the authors of the gem to see what, if anything, they've done or plan to do in that area (I couldn't see any explicit threading related code when I was skim reading the source).

Comment on 'Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets' by ABT

2010-02-01T08:05:36Z

I've been testing Paperclip (2.3.1) with AWS::S3 and a European bucket and I had no problem with putting/getting files from the bucket?!

The problem I had was that AWS::S3 was not threadsafe, any idea if S3 is threadsafe?