Rackspace Cloud Files

Description

This is a Ruby interface into the Rackspace 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.

Installation

This source is available on Github and the gem is available on Gemcutter. To install it, do

  gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org/

  sudo gem install cloudfiles

To use it in a Rails application, add the following information to your config/environment.rb

  config.gem "cloudfiles"

Examples

See the class definitions for documentation on specific methods and operations.

  require 'rubygems'
  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"

Authors

Initial work by Major Hayden <major.hayden@rackspace.com>

Subsequent work by H. Wade Minter <wade.minter@rackspace.com>

License

See COPYING for license information. Copyright © 2009, Rackspace US, Inc.