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Leahcim
Leahcim

Reputation: 41929

Carrier Wave gem and Heroku

I read here that Heroku doesn't allow you to store photos on their server and that people use CarrierWave gem with Amazon to store photos. However, I just watched Ryan Bate's Carrier Wave RailsCasts and he also mentions how CarrierWave has a remote url option whereby it will, in his words, "download" the photo from a URL and display it on your site. Does this mean that it stays on the remote server and just gets presented by CarrierWave on the Heroku site? I assume Carrier Wave's not somehow attempting to transfer the image at the url to the new server?

Might be a stupid question but I don't know a lot about servers (or anything :)))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 724

Answers (1)

elijah
elijah

Reputation: 2924

the remote url option for CarrierWave gives the user a different way of providing the picture to your server: instead of uploading the picture file directly, the user may give a URL where the picture is (say, on a Flickr account, or something). When this is provided to the application using CarrierWave, the picture is downloaded from the third-party location (given by the url) to the application server -- just as if the user had uploaded it directly -- and then stored to Amazon's S3.

Upvotes: 2

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