From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-04-08T01:02:00+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Park Place -- an Amazon S3 clone

Amazon has a very nice little service for storing files. [1]  However, 
in order to use it at all, you need to agree to a big length of verbage 
and then fish some dimes out of petty cash.  Dimes are small and Amazon 
knows this.

Park Place is a clone of their service.  You can store files on Park 
Place using very simple code from any language.  Set up user accounts, 
control access, works just like Amazon's. [2]  With the help of Camping, 
ActiveRecord and Mongrel, it does its job in ~400 lines of Ruby.

It's home on the web is at: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace/

If you'd like to give it a try, I'd suggest:

 gem install camping --source code.whytheluckystiff.net
 gem install mongrel activerecord
 svn co http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/parkplace/trunk parkplace
 cd parkplace/lib
 ruby parkplace.rb

Please make sure you've got the latest Camping, Mongrel and 
ActiveRecord.  In the next few days, I'll get this all wrapped up tidy 
and handsome in a gem.

_why

[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/
[2] http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/s3-developer-guide/index.htmlh