Sharebox - A Dropbox-like Sharing App using Ruby on Rails
March 20, 2012 · updated March 24, 2012
A week ago, I posted a quick fix to a bug in the Sharebox tutorial. The next day, it appears that the site hosting this tutorial expired, and its content could be lost. Never fear! Google’s cached version is here. To make it easier for you, I’ve posted the source code developed through the tutorial to my Github and you can see Sharebox in action on heroku. Lastly, I’m also hosting a cached copy of the tutorial for safekeeping, in the event its lost overwritten in Google’s cache.
Hope this helps!
14 comments
Imported from the previous site.
Richard Lewis· April 14, 2012
You are a star, i got half way through tutorial and the site expired? Thank you
Richard Lewis· April 15, 2012
Is there any way of retrieving the guide with screen-shots at all?
codyaray· April 15, 2012
Glad to help.
Unfortunately, I didn't take make a copy until after the site expired either. I would love to have the original (with screenshots) as well, but this is the best I have. However, I also posted the Sharebox code on Github. So you can simply start the server and look at it live. Maybe even take a few screenshots and shore up the original tutorial yourself, but since I was done already, I didn't go to the trouble. Best of luck!
kotu· June 17, 2012
Thank you for cached version of the tutorial. I had it in my bookmarks but some day it became premium.
Images can be easily restored by updating images "src" attributes in your cached version with paths (Amazon S3) provided in actual preview of this tutorial: http://tutsplus.com/tutorial/build-a-dropbox-like-file-sharing-site-with-ruby-on-rails Bash's sed command is the best way if some of you'ere using Unix based system.
Thanks again :)
Richard Lewis· April 16, 2012
will do thanks. i have also posted a question/issue on your github page if you wouldnt mind taking a look at
AryoCosmo· September 7, 2012
It's looks great but It's need a lot of modification such the progress bar on it :( and it's using RoR
codyaray· September 7, 2012
Its open source; feel free to make whatever improvements you see fit! :)
jason· December 10, 2012
has anyone tried upgrading to rails 3.2 after having this tutorial working correctly? I start getting 'undefined method' on 'ancestors' and 'new_file_path'... any thoughts on making it work correctly again before I go in and hack it up?
rakesh· February 14, 2013
wow really fantastic explanation,i did not seen such a wonderful explanation that too step by step awesome,but send button is not functioning in heroku,any way thanks.