Use of local filesystem makes hosting on Heroku a no-go about spectre HOT 12 CLOSED

I've found that it's pretty easy to adapt. spectre uses the Dragonfly gem for file storage, and there's an S3 variant. So all you need to do is:

Add:

gem 'dragonfly-s3_data_store'

To your Gemfile, bundle install and then tweak config/inializers/dragonfly.rb to include:

require 'dragonfly/s3_data_store'

at the top and

datastore :s3,
  bucket_name: 'YOUR-S3-BUCKET',
  access_key_id: 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY',
  secret_access_key: 'YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'

under the Dragonfly.app.configure do section. Just like magic, Heroku works well!

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Alternatively possibly the paperclip gem could be used. Paperclip supports many different cloud storage options.

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@calaway Thanks -- it's my first time contributing. I've opened a PR (above) -- hope it helps folks.

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Any chance you can PR this change?

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@Firefishy I've got it all ready to go locally. Add me in so I can publish the branch?

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I've still got the the pull request ready to go, but I don't have permission to publish it to GitHub. I'm happy to share it, just let me know

@Firefishy

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Supporting S3 out of the box would be a great feature

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I implemeneted a version that uses S3 for storage, which also works with non AWS S3, such as IBM Cloud S3, and minio

cameronbraid@2237bed

However , it doesn't fully store everything in S3 due to the way thumbnails are implemented - they are stored in the system/dragonfly/#{Rails.env}/thumbnails folder. So to fully support S3 the thumbnails need to be migrated to use the dragonfly api as well.

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I'm not a ruby programmer, however from my research it looks like a dragonfly upfront processor could be used to do the thumbnails http://markevans.github.io/dragonfly/models#up-front

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I implement thumbnails using dragonfly cameronbraid@4496c70

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@lanej0, instead of having the maintainer give you write access to this repo, you can fork it and submit a PR from your fork back to the original. This is a typical pattern for open source contributions.

I need the same thing, so it would be great to see your solution. Thank you, sir.

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@lanej0 @calaway I've merged that PR, so closing this issue. Will reopen if people have trouble getting s3 integration working.

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