This is a Ruby interface into the Rackspace Mosso Cloud Files service. Cloud Files is reliable, scalable and affordable web-based storage hosting for backing up and archiving all your static content. Cloud Files is the first and only cloud service that leverages a tier one CDN provider to create such an easy and complete storage-to-delivery solution for media content.
This gem is available on Github. To install it, do
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com sudo gem install rackspace-cloudfiles
To use it in a Rails application, add the following information to your config/environment.rb
config.gem "rackspace-cloudfiles", :source => "http://gems.github.com", :lib => "cloudfiles"
See the class definitions for documentation on specific methods and operations.
require 'cloudfiles'
# Log into the Cloud Files system
cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new(USERNAME, API_KEY)
# Get a listing of all containers under this account
cf.containers
=> ["backup", "Books", "cftest", "test", "video", "webpics"]
# Access a specific container
container = cf.container('test')
# See how many objects are under this container
container.count
=> 3
# List the objects
container.objects
=> ["bigfile.txt", "new.txt", "test.txt"]
# Select an object
object = container.object('test.txt')
# Get that object's data
object.data
=> "This is test data"
Initial work by Major Hayden <major.hayden@rackspace.com>
Subsequent work by H. Wade Minter <wade.minter@rackspace.com>
See COPYING for license information. Copyright © 2009, Rackspace US, Inc.