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 gem is available on Github. To install it, do

  gem sources -a https://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 => "https://gems.github.com", :lib => "cloudfiles"

Examples

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"

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.