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• In your GEMFILE: gem 'aws-sdk-s3', '~> 1'
  • This only loads the necessary items for using Amazon S3!
  • bundle install
• Create the following file: config/initializers/amazon.rb
  • Within this file, you will store the credentials of your account

Aws.config.update({
    region: 'us-west-2',
    credentials: Aws::Credentials.new(Rails.application.secrets.aws_access_key_id, 
    Rails.application.secrets.aws_secret_access_key),
    endpoint: "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
})

• In config/secrets.yml, store the actual access id and secrets:

development
  secret: adfbndggdhd
  id: fdwets245hb3433

• Now, if you go into bundle exec rails c, you can create a buckets, check existing buckets and their items ...

Accessing A Bucket

• In your model, you can add the following code:

class ContentPage < ActiveRecord::Base

    # Code for obtaining images on AMAZON S3
    def self.get_files_from_s3
        s3 = Aws::S3::Resource.new()
        bucket = s3.bucket(Rails.application.secrets.aws_bucket)
        file_array = []

        files_from_bucket = bucket.objects(prefix: 'uploads/fsi/content_image/image').each do |obj|
            file_array << obj.key if obj.key.include?("thumb_")
        end

        file_array
    end

end

• s3 = Aws::S3::Resource.new() won't need to supply any credentials, they are done already in the initialization
• To obtain an existing bucket, pass in the name of the bucket: s3.bucket(name)
• If your bucket contains folders within folders and you want to get to a specific folder path, you can use the prefix and insert the path you would like to retrieve your pictures from.
• bucket = s3.bucket(name), bucket.objects() will return an array of images stored in the bucket which you can now iterate over!