I have a rails 3 app with an UploadsUploader and a Resource model on which this is mounted. I recently switched to using s3 storage and this has broken my ability to download files using the send_to method. I can enable downloading using the redirect_to method which is just forwarding the user to an authenticated s3 url. I need to authenticate file downloads and I want the url to be http://mydomainname.com/the_file_path or http://mydomainname.com/controller_action_name/id_of_resource so I am assuming I need to use send_to, but is there a way of doing that using the redirect_to method? My current code follows. Resources_controller.rb
def download
resource = Resource.find(params[:id])
if resource.shared_items.find_by_shared_with_id(current_user) or resource.user_id == current_user.id
filename = resource.upload_identifier
send_file "#{Rails.root}/my_bucket_name_here/uploads/#{filename}"
else
flash[:notice] = "You don't have permission to access this file."
redirect_to resources_path
end
end
carrierwave.rb initializer:
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.fog_credentials = {
:provider => 'AWS', # required
:aws_access_key_id => 'xxxx', # copied off the aws site
:aws_secret_access_key => 'xxxx', #
}
config.fog_directory = 'my_bucket_name_here' # required
config.fog_host = 'https://localhost:3000' # optional, defaults to nil
config.fog_public = false # optional, defaults to true
config.fog_attributes = {'Cache-Control'=>'max-age=315576000'} # optional, defaults to {}
end
upload_uploader.rb
class UploadUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
storage :fog
def store_dir
"uploads"
end
end
All of this throws the error:
Cannot read file /home/tom/Documents/ruby/rails/circlshare/My_bucket_name_here/uploads/Picture0024.jpg
I have tried reading up about carrierwave, fog, send_to and all of that but everything I have tried hasn't been fruitful as yet. Uploading is working fine and I can see the files in s3 bucket. Using re_direct would be great as the file wouldn't pass through my server. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Looks like you want to upload to S3, but have not-public URLs. Instead of downloading the file from S3 and using send_file, you can redirect the user to the S3 authenticated URL. This URL will expire and only be valid for a little while (for the user to download).
Check out this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/carrierwave/browse_thread/thread/2f727c77864ac923
Since you're already setting fog_public to false, do you get an authenticated (i.e. signed) url when calling resource.upload_url