I’m using Ruby on rails and I have videos that I don’t want users to download.
Where do I store the videos? From the name of the folder “Public” maybe this is a really stupid question, but is that an ok ok place to store the videos?
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I’m using Ruby on rails and I have videos that I don’t want users to download.
Where do I store the videos? From the name of the folder “Public” maybe this is a really stupid question, but is that an ok ok place to store the videos?
Store your files somewhere other than the public directory when you upload them, in say for instance,
downloadsand then you can send files to a user with a controller action like:That way you can authenticate the user with before filters and the file won’t be available publicly.
Further reading: http://www.therailsway.com/2009/2/22/file-downloads-done-right