rails app for transfering/managing files/data

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Hi, does anyone knows an application (hopefully on rails) which deals with file transfer and management. I mean in the sense of an FTP. My problems are that the client has only access to HTTP (port 80) and all the tools (like DMS, etc.) out there (like knowledgetree, etc.) are heavy (PHP) monsters with too many options. I just need file upload/download, remove, link the resources (with authentication or hashed url). If time and money wouldn’t be an issue I would do it myself, but hopefully I don’t have to invent the wheel again.

Thanks in advance

Chris

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Have you considered an S3 based setup? What you've described is pretty much exactly what S3 does...

--Matt Jones

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Thanks Matt,

never tried S3 before and wanted to avoid extra costs.

Chris

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Granted, S3 isn't free - but neither is most people's time. Even a cheap hour of developer time (at, say, $30/hr) will pay to store 1GB on S3 for almost 10 years (at $0.15/GB*month). That's awfully close to free, unless there's quite a lot of data...

--Matt Jones

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Matt Jones wrote:

Granted, S3 isn't free - but neither is most people's time. Even a cheap hour of developer time (at, say, $30/hr) will pay to store 1GB on S3 for almost 10 years (at $0.15/GB*month).

As long as you never transfer data in or out. :slight_smile:

That's awfully close to free, unless there's quite a lot of data...

--Matt Jones

On Jan 29, 2:48�am, Christoph Jasinski

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