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Mah Bucket is a simple file library with search and tagging, which uses Amazon S3 for storage.

It has primarily been developed for storing and organising image files, but should hopefully be useful (or at least usable) for other file types too.

Ruby and Rails versions

Mah Bucket was initially developed using Ruby 2.3.1 and Rails 5.0.1, and is currently using Ruby 2.7.1 and Rails 6.0.3 - so it should have a fairly wide compatibility range. If you find a version of either that it won't run with, please let me know.

System dependencies

The paperclip gem requires ImageMagick to be installed.

Services

Mah Bucket uses Amazon S3 for file storage, Google OAuth for authentication, and was developed using Postgres for data storage - although any database supported by ActiveRecord should work.

Configuration

Set the following ENV vars:

    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    S3_BUCKET
    S3_REGION
    S3_HOST_ALIAS
    DATABASE_URL
    GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID
    GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET
    GOOGLE_OAUTH_DOMAIN

You can save these in a .env file for use with Foreman, and/or to load using the following command: export $(cat .env | grep -v ^# | xargs)

Database creation

rails db:setup

How to run the test suite

rspec

Author

Copyright and Credits

Initial development was largely paid for by 38 Degrees

Initial development was greatly assisted by Eliot Sykes

Licensing

Mah Bucket is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (version 2 or later). There are copies of v2 and v3 of the GPL in docs/Licensing, or you can read them online:
https://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0
https://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0

denny / MahBucket

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