This rails plugin allows file uploads directly to Amazon S3 (rather than going through your rails app). Useful for large file uploads/video etc. Especially useful if you use Heroku as your deployment platform.
This plugin uses the excellent JQuery based uploadify file uploader. More info at www.uploadify.com/
Rails Installation (see http://github.com/contrast/rails-uploadify-s3 for rails example code)¶ ↑
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Install the plugin
<pre>script/plugin install [email protected]:contrast/uploadify-s3.git</pre>
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Set your Amazon S3 configuration in ‘config/amazon_s3.xml`
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Ensure a crossdomain.xml file is configured in your Amazon S3 bucket
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Use the uploadify_s3 helper method in your view
e.g <div id=“VideoGallery” style=“display; none;”></div> <%= uploadify_s3({ :file_input_selector => ‘#file_uploader’, :button_text => ‘Add Video’, :file_ext => ‘*.mov’, :on_success => “ function(f) {
<input type=“file” name=“uploadify” id=“file_uploader” />
** This simple example will work in safari (i.e .mov files can be displayed directly in safari). This is not a recommended approach for handling cross browser supported video online.
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file_input_selector - The id of the file input
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button_text - The text for the uploadify button
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file_ext - The allowed file extensions
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on_success - A Javascrip callback function on upload complete. A hash of name, size, type and url are passed
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on_failure - A javascript callback function on upload failure. Error type and text are passed as parameters.
Any comments/patches contributions please contact [email protected]