Public folder (images, javascript) on Amazon's Cloudfront

Hi,

as the subject says I am currently considering to move all resources I already googled for some best practices, but haven't found much. However, despite that Cloudfront is quite new, I think that many Rails developers have thought about doing this.

As always thankful for any tips, tricks and suggestions.

Maybe it is interesting for other Rails beginners. The solution is pretty easy and straight-forward. Just go to the production environment and there is a line:

# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and javascripts from an asset server config.action_controller.asset_host = "http:// assets.example.com"

That's it!

Is there a script to update cloudfront when i update the app on the production server? I want to keep it synched. I looked at clcurl.pl seemed overly complicated for what i was looking for.

I know it's a little late in the game, but I had the same thought, and wrote up a pretty simple plugin to do this for you:

http://code.google.com/p/xlr8/