On 4/7/06, why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk / whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> Amazon has a very nice little service for storing files. [1]  However,
> in order to use it at all, you need to agree to a big length of verbage
> and then fish some dimes out of petty cash.  Dimes are small and Amazon
> knows this.
>
> Park Place is a clone of their service.  You can store files on Park
> Place using very simple code from any language.  Set up user accounts,
> control access, works just like Amazon's. [2]  With the help of Camping,
> ActiveRecord and Mongrel, it does its job in ~400 lines of Ruby.
>
> It's home on the web is at: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace/
>
> If you'd like to give it a try, I'd suggest:
>
>  gem install camping --source code.whytheluckystiff.net
>  gem install mongrel activerecord
>  svn co http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/parkplace/trunk parkplace
>  cd parkplace/lib
>  ruby parkplace.rb
>
> Please make sure you've got the latest Camping, Mongrel and
> ActiveRecord.  In the next few days, I'll get this all wrapped up tidy
> and handsome in a gem.
>
> _why
>
> [1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/
> [2] http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/s3-developer-guide/index.htmlh



Why, no gem yet?

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