Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)

Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by robgough on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:31AM (#30084263)

I'm really interested in fly.io after their Postgres post the other day, but I've not seen anywhere what their recommended solution is for ActiveStorage – is it still writing to S3 (or equivalent), or would it be somehow using their volumes? Are there any published examples (blog posts etc)?

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by remorses on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:56AM (#30084454)

Using volumes as some sort of s3 would require you to basically build s3 from scratch, you would still need to create an auth system, a server to handle uploads, a way to manage uploaded content maintaining their content type somehow (maybe using another db), a static server, .etc

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by klohto on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:32AM (#30084721)

Nobody's stopping you from running MinIO on top.

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by klohto on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:36AM (#30084752)

ActiveStorage has a local disk support, right? If you do need an S3 compatible storage on edge, you could deploy MinIO[0]

[0] - https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/minio/

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by mrkurt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:32AM (#30085828)

S3 or the equivalent is best, yes.

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by acejam on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:09PM (#30091893)

Check out Filebase [0]. It's powered by Web3 technologies including decentralized and distributed storage networks, effectively creating one giant "global" S3 region. You could almost think of it as the storage-equivalent to Fly.io. It also works with ActiveStorage out of the box since Filebase has an S3 compatible API.

[0] https://filebase.com/

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