[ben1040]

I had to do some work on an S3-backed project while out at sea on a cruise ship a few months ago (let's save the discussion about working on vacation for the 501 developer thread).

Thanks to git I was able to spool up my commits and then push when I pulled into port and had cellular access, but I wasn't really able to do everything I wanted with the paperclip-backed models without reliable/cheap network access.

An offline emulation mode for S3 sounds pretty nice, thanks for this!

[mr_luc]

On my last project, we used Dragonfly. Holy cow -- trivial to switch between file-backed and s3-backed storage in the various environment config files.

It was a lifesaver, because the wifi at the place I was couch-surfing was a little spotty.

[andrewflnr]

This dragonfly? https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly

It's kind of hard to google for "dragonfly".

[knewter]

Yeah, that one. That dragonfly is effing amazing and I <3 it. I have proselytised for it for quite some time now and I'm still depressed more people don't use it. I actually found it when I started contributing to refinerycms.