Upload images from rails to linode

Question

So I want to upload images from my running rails 3 app wich is hosted on linode, the file upload works locally, but when i try to do it remotely it fails. I've read some options, but almost all of them looks like this:

CarrierWave.configure do |config|

  if Rails.env.development? || Rails.env.test?
    config.storage = :file
  else
  config.storage = :fog
  config.fog_credentials = {
      :provider               => 'AWS',
      :aws_access_key_id      =>  'some_access_key_id',
      :aws_secret_access_key  => 'some_secret_key',
      :region                 => 'eu-west-1'
   }
   config.fog_directory = 'bucket_name'
   end
end

but when i change it to linode options it gave me the

ArgumentError (linode is not a recognized storage provider):
  app/controllers/users_controller.rb:50:in `create'

then i took the sftp option:

CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.sftp_host = "my.host.com"
config.sftp_user = "username"
config.sftp_folder = "public_html/uploads"
config.sftp_url = "http://my.host.com/uploads"
config.permissions = 0666
config.directory_permissions = 0777
config.storage = :file  
config.sftp_options = {
  :password => "mypass",
  :port     => 22
}
end

but i still got the same error:

ArgumentError (linode is not a recognized storage provider):
 app/controllers/users_controller.rb:50:in `create'

I'm workink with aptana and rails 3.2 using git and then deploy with capistrano after every change i make and commit. I ran into a similar question here Uploading files to Linode using CarrierWave but it has no answer. I don't know if it can be done with carrierwave but any suggestion will be taken, any help you can give is welcome.

Thank you!

Answer 1

As you have 20GB of storage on your Linode instance and your server runs already on Linode, you want to chose the carrierwave option :file - because you just want to store the images on the filesystem of your (Linode) server, not any external storage provider like S3. (Linode is not a recognized carrierwave storage provider, hence the error message)

Try just leaving it with the same option than your development environment:

CarrierWave.configure do |config|
    config.storage = :file
end

Answer 2

if your app is small one.. then i suggest Use Openshift to deploy your app... checkout this deploying rails app in openshift

openshift provides one permanent data directory to store data and its free, and its really very easy to deploy there.