Rails on Multiple Hard Drives? - ruby-on-rails

Is there a way to configure Rails to work across multiple hard drives? I have Ruby and Rails installed on my F: drive, but my project stored on my G: drive. So when I try to open up the site I'm developing, I get the following error:
different prefix: "F:/" and "G:/"
about one of the stylesheets. Is there any way to fix this, or do I need to store everything on the same drive?

If you are working on Windows 7 or Vista, you can use the mklink command to create a symbolic link from one directory to another, even if they are on different hard drives.

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How to move Active Storage data from one machine to another

Because reasons we are trying to move a system from one machine to another one. It has several files in the storage directory. I rsynced it (using -a) to a local environment to see if everything works, but turns out not all the files are available, some of them raise an exception:
Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory # rb_file_s_mtime - /path/to/project/storage/as/df/asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf):
Of course I checked the routes and they exists. I've been reading a bit about how Active Storage works and I maybe the URLs are getting invalidated for some reason, but why some files work? 🧐 Why the exception mentions mtime? And more importantly, how can I do the migration smoothly?
Thanks in advance
So the problem is actually the filesystems + Active Record names 😰 You can consider this a corner case: My local machine runs macOS, while the server runs Linux, so if I had folders Vf and VF on Linux, on macOS they become one (whichever is downloaded firs). Active Storage relies on case-sensitive filenames, and that's why some of the files work fine, but others are not found

Rails 4: Issue Sending .txt files from local machine to Windows Share

I'm currently creating .csv files from a SQL view and writing to
#{Rails.root}/public/
which works no problem. In addition, I need to write these generated files to a Windows share in the form of:
\\NAME-APP.enterprise.company.com\Files
I've tried Net::SCP.upload, Net::SFTP.start, FileUtils, rsync, and even Dir.entries('share url here)` just to see if I can see anything in the folder, which generally results in
No such file or directory # dir_initialize
I can map my local computer to the Windows share point, in the form of:
smb://NAME-APP.enterprise.company.com/Files
but manually dragging and dropping to there isn't an acceptable solution in this case.
Feel like I've hit a wall and may be overlooking something. Have stumbled across this post but to no avail: How do I address a UNC path in Ruby on Windows?
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated.
Edit:
FileUtils.cp_r('/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/davidpardy/development/ror/sbb/oct31week/1a/FST-Export/public/1538791_new.txt', '\\\\NAME-APP\\Files')
doesn't return an error, but doesn't upload the .txt file to Files.
The solution is not to use FileUtils.cp_r(source_file, 'smb://...') because smb://... only represents the server address, not the mount folder on your filesystem.
In the terminal, run the mount command to find the path of the mount folder, which is what you'll use in ruby, e.g., FileUtils.cp_r(source_file, '/Volumes/mount_folder_here...').

IDA Pro: Reverse-Engineering Temp Storage

In the executable I am reverse-engineering, there are several references to a path in my D:\ drive. However, I do not have a D:\ drive connected. Is it possible that it creates a temporary storage site in the executable?
For example, there is a string:
D:\BuildAgent\...\bin\...\fileIWantToSee.jpg
IDA even believes that the symbol information is in the D drive, and attempts to look for it, to no avail. There are many instances of file references within these strings, and many of them end with a:
Line: **LINENUMBER**
Where would I go about trying to find where this storage is located? Thank you!
EDIT: Could it be in a specific section?
Is it possible that it creates a temporary storage site in the executable?
This is possible. There exists at least one product (http://www.boxedapp.com/, kind of our competitor :) that lets the application create such container -- the calls to file APIs are intercepted by the code added to the application by this product, and this added code handles specific paths in a different way (emulating file operations), letting all other calls go to Windows API.

Scan directory for file names in MVC

I'm developing a MVC5 web app, hosted through azure, that lets you manage your movies (it's just for myself at the moment). I'm trying to find a way to scan a local folder on the users pc for a list of file names. I do realise the security/permissions issues I might run into. I do not need the file uploaded, only the full file name.
It would work by the user being able to select a folder where they store their movies and it will take in all the file names, including the ones in any sub directories.
I tried a multiple file upload form but quickly ran into issues with the max request limit which I tried messing around with but it proved redundant in the end. I can settle for the user selecting multiple files but would rather it done the directory way.
I know this might prove impossible in the end but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Can RoR access and monitor an external hard drive on clients local maching?

I am trying to build web based file archiving app (like Apple Time Machine) that watches an external hard drive and when ever a file/folder is added it writes the file path to a database that can be searched later. So if user added this folder "My Folder" on this date "04/16/12" to external HD "Drive 1" and needed to find that folder or its contents at a later date they could search the name, date or drive name and the corresponding results would be returned.
Is this possible with RoR or would I have to use another language or a combination of the two?
Ruby can access the local system, see here for some examples of Disk IO operations possible:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_input_output.htm
Obviously, this means the ruby must be running on the local disk. In theory, RoR could be used along with vanilla ruby code for this purpose, so long as it was all running locally. Seems like a hassle to setup a web server simply for some software to use however.
See this question for a discussion of Ruby frameworks that aren't for web apps:
Ruby App MVC framework (not web)
No. Ruby on Rails is a web framework. You'll need to use something client-side such Objective-C, C++, or even Java.

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