AWS SDK for Ruby Sample Project

A simple Ruby application illustrating usage of the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem).

Requirements

The only requirement of this application is Bundler. All other dependencies can be installed with:

bundle install

You can also install the SDK directly with:

gem install aws-sdk

Basic Configuration

You need to set up your AWS security credentials before the sample code is able to connect to AWS. You can do this by creating a file named "credentials" at ~/.aws/ (C:\Users\USER_NAME.aws\ for Windows users) and saving the following lines in the file:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <your access key id>
aws_secret_access_key = <your secret key>

See the Security Credentials page for more information on getting your keys.

Running the S3 sample

This sample application connects to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), creates a bucket, and uploads a file to that bucket. The s3_sample.rb script will generate a unique bucket name for you as well as an object to upload. All you need to do is run it:

ruby s3_sample.rb

The S3 documentation has a good overview of the restrictions for bucket names for when you start making your own buckets.

License

This sample application is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.