Download a Rails application's production attachements to your local machine

download_attachments.sb

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APP_HOME=$( cd ${0%/*} && pwd -P )"/.."
REMOTE_SHARED="railsapp@host.domain.net:~/www/railsapp/shared"
SPEED_LIMIT=""
# Un-comment this line if you want to limit the download speed to un-clog your connexion
# SPEED_LIMIT="--bwlimit=500"

# -l forces copy of symlinks
#
# Other filters in exclude_assets to avoid getting large images
# **.[pP][dD][fF]
# **original**

# Make sure you are using a recent rsync version (3+) for the progress2 info
ARGS="--delete -lPrt --safe-links --exclude-from=$APP_HOME/script/exclude_assets --human-readable --progress --info=progress2 $SPEED_LIMIT"

rsync $ARGS $REMOTE_SHARED/public/attachments/ $APP_HOME/public/attachments/
rsync $ARGS $REMOTE_SHARED/private/            $APP_HOME/private/

exclude_assets

**.gz
_cache