From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T10:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: net-amazon-s3 0.1.0

Hey, that's awesome, I'm working with S3 too. I just modified the
Amazon code slightly, but it needs an open-source thing, people are
just reinventing the wheel.

On 11/27/06, Ryan Grove <ryan@wonko.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
>


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