cloudfiles

= New projects should use {fog}[http://github.com/fog/fog].

= Rackspace Cloud Files

== Description

This is a Ruby interface into the Rackspace[http://rackspace.com/] {Cloud Files}[http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/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.

== Upgrade Gotchas

As of gem version 1.4.8, the connection method has changed from positional arguments to a hash of options. This is the new style:

cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new(:username => "MY_USERNAME", :api_key => "MY_API_KEY")

This is the old style, which still works but is deprecated:

cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new("MY_USERNAME","MY_API_KEY")

== Installation

This source is available on Github[http://github.com/rackspace/ruby-cloudfiles/] and the gem is available on Gemcutter[http://gemcutter.org/]. To install it, do

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org/

sudo gem install cloudfiles

To use it in a Rails application, add the following information to your config/environment.rb

config.gem "cloudfiles"

== Examples

See the class definitions for documentation on specific methods and operations.

require 'rubygems' require 'cloudfiles'

Log into the Cloud Files system

cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new(:username => "MY_USERNAME", :api_key => "MY_API_KEY")

Or, if you want to access the United Kingdom cloud installations, there's a handy constant:

cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new(:username => "MY_USERNAME", :api_key => "MY_API_KEY", :auth_url => CloudFiles::AUTH_UK)

Or, if you want to access CloudFiles from within the Rackspace network

cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new(:username => "MY_USERNAME", :api_key => "MY_API_KEY", :snet => true)

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

Upload a file

object = container.create_object 'filename.txt', false object.write file

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 [e-mail]

Subsequent work by H. Wade Minter [e-mail] and Dan Prince [e-mail]

== License

See COPYING for license information. Copyright (c) 2011, Rackspace US, Inc.