Leveraging AWS Services with Ruby on Rails 🚀

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a comprehensive cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services from computing power, storage, databases, and machine learning to advanced data analytics. Integrating AWS services with Ruby on Rails allows developers to build scalable, resilient, and cost-effective applications.

In this blog, we’ll dive deep into some commonly used AWS services with Ruby on Rails, highlighting their use cases and providing examples of how to integrate them into your Rails app. Let’s begin! 🔥

1. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 🗃️

Amazon S3 is a highly scalable object storage service that allows you to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time. For a Ruby on Rails app, S3 is typically used to store assets such as images, videos, and documents.

Integration with Ruby on Rails

First, add the `aws-sdk-s3` gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'aws-sdk-s3', '~> 1.96'

Next, create an initializer for AWS S3 in `config/initializers/aws_s3.rb`:

Aws.config.update({
   region: 'us-west-2',
   credentials: Aws::Credentials.new(
   ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
   ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
 )
})

S3_BUCKET = Aws::S3::Resource.new.bucket(ENV['S3_BUCKET_NAME'])