Ruby on AWS Lambda

Why?

Because:

AWS Lambda has immense potential and interesting implications
AWS Lambda doesn't officially support Ruby, as yet
Ruby has immense potential and interesting implications as well!

How?

By:

packaging a Ruby binary with our app
- thank you, Traveling Ruby!
Lambda executes a simple NodeJS program that shells out to our code
- see index.js
Ruby executes your code
- yes, Bundler works! (within reason)
Hello World is about 8MB, leaving you 42MB of room to get crazy
- (no native gems)

Usage

Sign up for Amazon AWS
Get access to Amazon S3
Get access to Amazon Lambda
Create an IAM account with access to S3 and Lambda
Install the aws cli tools
Set up an AWS profile in ~/.aws/credentials for the account created above
Change the variables in deploy.sh to match your app and AWS settings
Ensure you're using ruby 2.1.x in this directory
Ensure you're using Bundler version 1.9.9
Add any gems you need to app/Gemfile
cd app and run bundle install from there (you need a Gemfile.lock)
edit app/app.rb with your application code
run ./deploy.sh linux-x86_64
test your Lambda Function!

i've been using the web console for testing