Working with Files in Large Projects

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A practical walkthrough of building a file-storage system for large Ruby/Rails projects: designing a scalable, reliable, and flexible storage for many binary files, handling versioning complexity, and common issues in content-heavy apps. Covers using ffmpeg for media processing, and shows how to write a simple adapter when there’s no Ruby gem wrapper for a popular media library.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:13File storage problems
3. 6:03File backend implementation
4. 8:11Handling attachments and versions
5. 11:22Media tools
6. 13:57Wrappers for external utilities
7. 16:47Managing temporary files
8. 21:25Q&A

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