Carrierwave uploads on Dropbox

This gem allows you to easily upload your medias on Dropbox using the awesome CarrierWave gem.

Installation

First, you have to create a Dropbox app. You can either create a "full dropbox" or "app folder" application. Please see this wiki for further information and gotchas.

Then, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'carrierwave-dropbox'

And make sure that it gets installed running the bundle command. Then, you have to run the rake dropbox:authorize command to authorize your application to access to your Dropbox.

If you are using Rails, the Rake task is automatically loaded. Otherwise, if you aren't running a Rails application, first load the task in your Rakefile:

load "carrierwave/dropbox/authorize.rake"

Then you have to run this task:

rake dropbox:authorize APP_KEY=app_key APP_SECRET=app_secret ACCESS_TYPE=dropbox|app_folder

This command will output an URL ; use your browser to hit this URL and authorize your application. After that, return to the console and validate typing "y". Finally, you will get your credentials. Config CarrierWave to make it work with your Dropbox application:

CarrierWave.configure do |config|
  config.dropbox_app_key = ENV["APP_KEY"]
  config.dropbox_app_secret = ENV["APP_SECRET"]
  config.dropbox_access_token = ENV["ACCESS_TOKEN"]
  config.dropbox_access_token_secret = ENV["ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"]
  config.dropbox_user_id = ENV["USER_ID"]
  config.dropbox_access_type = "dropbox"
end

Note: It's advisable not to directly store the credentials in your files especially if you are using a SCM (e.g. git). You should store these values in environment variables for instance like in the above example.

Then you can either specify in your uploader files the storage or define it globally through CarrierWave.configure:

class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  storage :dropbox
end

Special thanks

This project is highly based on these two gems:

• paperclip-dropbox
• carrierwave-aws

Thanks to their respective authors and contributors!

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Please see the LICENSE file for further information.