From: Ryan Grove <ryan@...>
Date: 2006-11-28T13:25:29+09:00
Subject: net-amazon-s3 0.1.0

Howdy folks,

I recently released the first version of Net::Amazon::S3, a pure Ruby 
library for interacting with Amazon S3 via the REST API. I consider this 
release beta quality, but it currently has no known issues (although a 
few features, such as ACLs and logging, have not yet been implemented).

I see this library as having a few benefits over some of the existing S3 
libraries for Ruby:

* It's not based on the (imho) unnecessarily complex Amazon example Ruby 
code.
* It has no non-Ruby dependencies (in fact, it currently has no 
dependencies outside the standard libraries), and is thus completely 
platform-independent.
* It supports uploading from an open IO stream and downloading in 
chunks, so large files don't need to be entirely buffered in memory 
(this was a severe shortcoming of Amazon's example code and some of the 
libraries based on it).

You can find Net::Amazon::S3 at http://wonko.com/software/net-amazon-s3 
and in RubyGems as net-amazon-s3.

I'd love to hear feedback and criticism (constructive or otherwise, 
although I'm likely to ignore the latter).

-- 
Ryan Grove
ryan@wonko.com
http://wonko.com/