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Using S3 for Image Uploads

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Brandon Robins edited this page Mar 31, 2015 · 2 revisions

In the Storytime initializer, change media_storage to :s3 and set s3_bucket to the name, as listed in AWS, of your bucket to enable image storage on S3.

# config/initializers/storytime.rb
Storytime.configure do |config|
  # File upload options.
  config.enable_file_upload = true

  # AWS Region to use for file uploads.
  config.aws_region = ENV['STORYTIME_AWS_REGION']

  # AWS Access Key ID to use for file uploads.
  config.aws_access_key_id = ENV['STORYTIME_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']

  # AWS Secret Key to use for file uploads.
  config.aws_secret_key = ENV['STORYTIME_AWS_SECRET_KEY']

  config.media_storage = :s3
  config.s3_bucket = "my-s3-bucket"
end

By default Storytime looks for the STORYTIME_AWS_REGION, STORYTIME_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, and STORYTIME_AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variables.

Note: If config.aws_region is set to nil, the us-east-1 region will be used by default.

Using secrets.yml

Rails 4.1 introduced config/secrets.yml, allowing us to store all sorts of goodies, including our AWS credentials.

# config/secrets.yml
production:
  aws_access_key_id: 'another_secret'
  aws_secret_access_key: 'another_secret'
# config/initializers/storytime.rb
config.aws_access_key_id = Rails.application.secrets.aws_access_key_id
config.aws_secret_key = Rails.application.secrets.aws_secret_access_key
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