Assuming you have already installed paperclip gem. .
My OS : Windows
#AMAZON S3 SETUP :
1. Create new account
2. Create S3 bucket, name it.
3. Go to security credentials, It'll ask you to generate IAM user, generate it.
4. Click access keys & generate a new one. Note down access_key_id & secret_access key.
5. Click policies & add "Administrator access policy".
Note : Step 5 is very imp or you'll get access denied while uploading on heroku server.
#RAILS CODE SETUP:
Step 1 : Add this gem to your gem file :
gem 'aws-sdk', '< 2.0'
Note: it's important that you write it exactly the same as the version above 2.0 will give you errors later on.
Step 2 : Add these lines inside # config > environment > production.rb
Note : Don't replace anything in the above code.
Step 3 : Execute these 3 commands from the root directory of your app using terminal
Note : Replace your_bucket_name with name of your bucket
For ex: if your bucket_name is hello-world then command will be :
My OS : Windows
#AMAZON S3 SETUP :
1. Create new account
2. Create S3 bucket, name it.
3. Go to security credentials, It'll ask you to generate IAM user, generate it.
4. Click access keys & generate a new one. Note down access_key_id & secret_access key.
5. Click policies & add "Administrator access policy".
Note : Step 5 is very imp or you'll get access denied while uploading on heroku server.
#RAILS CODE SETUP:
Step 1 : Add this gem to your gem file :
gem 'aws-sdk', '< 2.0'
Note: it's important that you write it exactly the same as the version above 2.0 will give you errors later on.
Step 2 : Add these lines inside # config > environment > production.rb
# config/environments/production.rb config.paperclip_defaults = { :storage => :s3, :s3_credentials => { :bucket => ENV['S3_BUCKET_NAME'], :access_key_id => ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'], :secret_access_key => ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'] } }
Note : Don't replace anything in the above code.
Step 3 : Execute these 3 commands from the root directory of your app using terminal
$ heroku config:set S3_BUCKET_NAME=your_bucket_name
$ heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_access_key_id
$ heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret_access_key
Note : Replace your_bucket_name with name of your bucket
For ex: if your bucket_name is hello-world then command will be :
$ heroku config:set S3_BUCKET_NAME=hello-worldDo the same for the accesss key & secret access key that we obtain from Amazon.
