migrating_to_s3.md

Migrating to S3

Migrate locally stored file path

Ensure that everything is in public/system per the recent changes in the settings.

See the CHANGELOG for instructions.

Sync the folder to S3

This does an rsync-style sync, so you can run it once initially and then it'll only copy over new files the next time you run it. See the AWS docs for more information.

aws s3 sync public/system s3://BUCKET_NAME --acl private
# Optional argument: --dryrun

Update the application settings

Add the aws-sdk-s3 gem to Gemfile

Add your AWS access keys either to the ENV or to secrets.yml (see <config/secrets.yml.template>) on the server.

Update config/settings/ENVIRONMENT.yml to use s3 as the provider for Paperclip and configure the bucket (and region if necessary). See the example in <config/settings/production.yml>

Deploy the application.

Run the sync one last time.