retrieve carrierwave file uploaded to Amazon S3 - ruby-on-rails

Question

Using Rails 3.2, carrier wave, and recently switched to store on Amazon S3. My setup and uploads are all working fine.
1. I have image_uploader.rb to upload and store images. Displaying them all works fine
2. I have file_uploader.rb to upload and store files. I've even taken it a step further to upload ZIP files and extract a version so that both the ZIP file and TXT files are stored in the correct place on S3.
My problem is I run a method on the TXT file. In the past, I used storage :file
With that I was able to:
Dir.chdir("public/uploads/")
import_file = Dir['*.TXT'].first
f = File.new(import_file)
Now, that I'm using storage :fog I can't get seem to retrieve/File.new/Open the file.
I see the file with the usual commands:
#upload1.team_file # stored file
#upload1.team_file.url # url
#upload1.team_file_url(:data_file).to_s # version created
I've been pouring through all kinds of very limited leads on retrieving and/or opening the file, but everything I try seems to return errors, such as:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - https://teamfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/data_files…
Thoughts on the difference here of retrieving and USING a file from AmazonS3? Thanks!

Answer 1

Pulling from multiple threads, APIs, etc. I'm answering my own question with what I've found. I welcome any corrections or improvements:
To retrieve carrierwave files uploaded to AmazonS3, you have to understand that open(#upload.file_url) or File.open(#upload.file_url) does NOT open the file, it only opens the PATH to the file. (ref: Ruby OpenURI )
I use: open_uri_url = open(#upload.file_url)
You then have to find the specific file in that path that you want. For me, I then find a ZIP file that was uploaded to AmazonS3 and Extract the specific file within the ZIP file that I want with a unique *.ABC extension:
zip_content_file = Zip::File.open(open_uri_url).map{|content| content if content.to_s.split('.').last == "ABC"}.compact.first
Now, from here, where to extract to?? I create a unique directory in the Rails tmp directory to extract the file to, use it and then delete the directory:
tmp_directory = "tmp/extracts/#{#upload.parent_id}/"
FileUtils.mkdir_p(tmp_directory) unless File.directory?(tmp_directory)
extract = zip_content_file.extract(tmp_directory + content_file.to_s)
Now with found from the AmazonS3 stored ZIP file and extracted, I can open, read, etc:
f = File.new(tmp_directory + extract.to_s)
I hope this helps with Carrierwave, AmazonS3, ZIP files and using them once uploaded.