From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T11:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How to retrieve some photos stored on Amazon with Ruby on Rails

Nik wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> Thanks for reading my post first!
> 
> Would anyone be kind enough to instruct me to link my photos I uploaded
> to Amazon S3 (by using JungleDisk) on my Ruby on Rails app?
> 
> If there's already an article, could you kindly point me to it?

To get stuff via http, the object has to be publicly readable.

You can then make a URL from the default s3 domain and the bucket name + 
object name

For example, rubyaz.org uses s3 to serve some images.

The bucket name is

   /e3static.rubyaz.org/images/


An object is

   cyclonemap.jpg


So the URL is

   http://s3.amazonaws.com/e3static.rubyaz.org/images/cyclonemap.jpg

If you want to use a nice URL that maps to your application domain, you 
need to do some DNS CNAME stuff.

Then you can do this:

   http://e3static.rubyaz.org/images/cyclonemap.jpg


If there's something else you need to do that is Rails related, you 
would do better to ask on the Rails mailing list.


-- 
James Britt

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