I need to make a simple rails app where an admin user can create "recordings". Each "recording" has the following types of information:
* Title
* URL to a .zip
* The number of "editions" to make of this "recording
The idea is that for each "edition" there is URL generated (for instance, mydomain.com/85876) that takes you to a page where you see the Title and a download begins of the "URL to a .zip" mentioned above. The person that goes to the mydomain.com/85876 should never see the original URL of the .zip, that should be obscured. And that /86876 link should expire within a week of being visited.
This a simple scheme for selling music (or other media) by means of selling people the unique URLs (mydomain.com/85876).
The more help, the better. Help could be in the form of advice, code snippets or the actual code to build such a system. I've set the reward high, but if only partial help can be offered I'll set a slightly lower reward and pay that.
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http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Generating-OneTime-URLs-with-PHP/ contains a beautiful article on how to achieve the required functionality in PHP. the same could be implemented in ruby on rails with appropriate modifications.
too much of searching before i reached the above article...
Very helpful link. How about $10 for it?
how about $20
:)
fine by me. btw, do you remember what you google'd to find it? i couldn't find it myself.
i dont remember. but will try to find it