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I’m building a Ruby on Rails app that scrapes the images off a website. What is the best location to save this images to?
Edit:
To be clear, I know the file system is the best type of storage, but where on the file system? I suppose I have to stay in the RoR app directory, but which folder is best suitable for this? public?
On your file server (static Apache server), on your app server (save some where locally in the disk and serve via the app server) or on Amazon S3
But I would suggest not to store in Database. (Some people think it’s alright. So, I would be limited to suggestion)
in ROR, under
<app_name>/public/imagessee here — but the data will be public. If you are worried about privacy, probably this is not right.If you are concerned about privacy, see the options discussed here How to store private pictures and videos in Ruby on Rails But as a sughestion: serving files from app-server may be painful in high traffic conditions and my experience is it better off-loaded to a file server or a cloud like S3.