You can use @podcast.audio.service_url  instead of url_for(@podcast.audio) which will be a direct link to the S3 endpoint.  However, if you're using a different storage mechanism like disk in your development environment, it wouldn't work. You may need to have minio or something similar within your development environment.

Awesome  ☒ ! Glad to hear that!

 ☒ Version of Capybara or Rails?

In that particular scenario, I would extract the company_id from the user model and instead have a company_user model so that you could have a user belong to multiple companies.