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johnblanco
johnblanco

Reputation: 197

Are files uploaded to heroku immediately deleted?

I see everywhere that heroku deletes changes you made to the filesystem once you deploy or scale your application but in my case it seems files disappear immediately.

My rails application uploads files to public/uploads and then a delayed job tries to read those files, when it tries to read them they are not found.

If I do everything in the same thread it works, but when I try to use the delayed job or check the filesystem using heroku run bash the files are gone.

Why this happens?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1025

Answers (1)

cristi_razvi
cristi_razvi

Reputation: 764

heroku is a read only file system. so actually you don't even write the files but just keep them in memory while in one thread.

if you want to use some free storage system i recommend google drive. you'll need to do some searching of how to use that since not too long ago they changed they're login policy only with Oauth, no more password/username login

Upvotes: 2

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