i am currently developing a rails3 app with mongomapper and file storage in gridfs. after some trying around, i found grip and currently also use it in the app for storing the data. so far, so good - now i am trying to get my head around serving the files to the user -- what would be the best/fastest way to achieve that? from: http://ra...
I had uploaded images to mongoDB using GridFS. I want to retrieve an image from the db and display it in the browser. How to do this with the help of Sinatra and HAML. ...
i want to store all my assets in mongo gridfs. i was trying to get carrierwave setup with mongomapper and gridfs but seems carrierwave supports mongoid now instead. I need to be able to save different size versions / cropped versions of an image so thats why i was going to use carrierwave. Currently its set up to store on file ...
Does GridFS have an upsert? For example, if i want to save an image with a specified _id, and one with that same _id already exists, i want it to overwrite (update) it. Otherwise, insert it. Thanks! Matt ...
I develop a new website and I want to use GridFS as storage for all user uploads, because it offers a lot of advantages compared to a normal filesystem storage. Benchmarks with GridFS served by nginx indicate, that it's not as fast as a normal filesystem served by nginx. Benchmark with nginx Is anyone out there, who uses GridFS alrea...
I seem to be unable to properly mount my mongoDB database as a drive using gridfs-fuse. Here are the steps I am following: I followed the directions listed here: http://www.coffeepowered.net/2010/02/24/serving-files-out-of-gridfs-part-2/. I am running Mac OS X Leopard (64 bit) and have mongodb running and linked at /opt/mongo. Scons ru...
I have around 2 million strings with different lengths that I need to compress and put into MongoDb GridFS as files. The strings are currently stored in MS SQL TEXT field of a table. I wrote a sample app to read each row, compress it and store it as a GridFS file. There is one reader and a thread pool of 50 threads storing the results....
I'm creating a site where a client who will be selling his photography which he sells a lot of it and will probably get quite a bit of traffic. Probably around 2k-5k uniques a day. I'm using MongoDB with PHP and I read i should use GridFS to store these large files. Upwards of 2MB-5MB photos, but obviously BW will be extremely spendy (im...
I have a Rails 3 project that does file upload/download, with access rights (User has many Files, and can only read/write his own files). If I store my files on classic filesystem, I can check the access to the file in my rails app and then use X-Sendfile header to redirect to the file, if user has access. In this way, a user can neve...