"mickey mouse"
Task 1:
I can write a rake task to get the photos from FTP directories. Based on the event directory, the script should create the datas based on the associations.(ie, event, album and photo). We can set a cronjob to the rake task and it will run based on the crobjob which we set in the server.
Task 2:
No need to downgrade the application, we can upgrade the dreamhost server to the required version (ie rails 3.1.0)
I've a vast experience in Ruby On Rails. I'm using Rails 3.x and ruby 1.8.7. Let me know which version of ruby, rails to build the project. I'm interested to work with you.