Protecting your Paperclip downloads
Way back last November when I first blogged about Paperclip I included a brief mention of hiding files behind a controller rather than simply putting them in the public directory for all to see. Since then I’ve noticed that the question of how to actually do this has come up regularly over on Rails Forum and a couple of weeks ago I had to figure out how to update some of our code to protect assets that we had migrated from local file system to Amazon S3 storage. So I figured it’s probably a worthwhile technique to share.
