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Preparation of getting start "Ruby on Rails Tutorial"

wind-up-bird — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:15:45 +0000

Background

These days, I started studying Rails with Ruby on Rails Tutorial in Japanese.
(This is Japanese version)

I set up the local environment with Vagrant and VirtualBox because I don't want to use AWS and Heroku etc... (The main reason is money.)

So I write down the article (or note?) to start Ruby on Rails Tutorial.

My Environment

OS: macOS High Sierra (version 10.13.6)
Vagrant: 2.2.0
VirtualBox: 5.2.18

Please see below how to install Vagrant and VirtualBox if you do not installed yet.
Downloads – Oracle VM VirtualBox
Installing Vagrant - Vagrant by HashiCorp

Vagrantfile

I used Ubuntu 18.04 as guest Virtual Machine.
And I set the port forwarding from 3000 (host) to 3000 (guest).

Example

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3000, host: 3000
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.memory = "2048"
  end
end

In my case, the error occurred because of the lack of memory when I install rails on guest VM. So, I changed the size of memory (default is 1024 I guess) as above.

Install rbenv

After launching VM,

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

I installed rbenv first.

$ git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile
$ rbenv -v
rbenv 1.1.1-39-g59785f6

Second, I installed rbenv plugin.

$ git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

Install Ruby

Then, I checked the version of Ruby and installed 2.5.0.

$ rbenv install --list
$ rbenv install 2.5.0
$ rbenv rehash
$ rbenv global 2.5.0
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]

By the way, I found some errors in this procedure because essential packages were not installed. So, I did development tools etc.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install build-essential
$ sudo apt install libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev nodejs

Install rails

In Ruby on Rails Tutorial, Rails version is 5.1.6, so I run this command;

$ gem install rails -v 5.1.6

$ rails -v
Rails 5.1.6

Seems success to install.

First Rails application

I want to check whether the installation was correct, so run these commands;

$ mkdir environment
$ cd environment/
$ rails _5.1.6_ new hello_app
$ cd hello_app/
$ rails server

After that, I accessed this URL;

http://localhost:3000

;)

Try to use Ruby and Sinatra app with AWS Lambda

wind-up-bird — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:56:06 +0000

Note:
This is the article I translated myself from Qiita blog

Introduction

There were a lot of announcement in AWS re:invent in 2018.
Especially, related to AWS Lambda,

We have used the Lambda as the back end of ALB;
Lambda functions as targets for Application Load Balancers | Networking & Content Delivery

We don't have to package each functions anymore because Lambda Layers have launched;
New for AWS Lambda – Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components | AWS News Blog

Today, I would like to introduce Ruby with AWS Lambda in this article.
Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda | AWS Compute Blog

Hello World

First of all, I will do the tutorial in the blog.
I make a new function as below;

I'm able to choose the runtime of ruby. But you can select the Ruby 2.5 now.
Then, the sample code was shown in the lambda as usual:

So, I will execute this function.
When you click the Test button you will find the new window and you should input the Event Name. And then, you have to create the TEST clicking Create button.

I will execute the test event I made before.

{
  "statusCode": 200,
  "body": "\"Hello from Lambda!\""
}

I can see it and it seems ok.

Deploy the Web application

Note: I used ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) region.

Next, I try to deploy Web application with Sinatra which is written in the blog.
GitHub - Demo code for running Ruby Sinatra on AWS Lambda

We will use not only AWS lambda but also API Gateway and DynamoDB.

Prerequisite

I will use AWS SAM and install it in advance with pip command as below:

> pip install aws-sam-cli

Also, I have to S3 bucket in order to upload the application later.

> aws s3 mb s3://sample-sinatra-application

In this time, I set the bucket name as sample-sinatra-application.

Clone sample application from Github

Clone the sample code.

> git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/serverless-sinatra-sample

I will install the packages with bundler as below.

> cd serverless-sinatra-sample
> bundle install --deployment

Packaging

Then, I upload the application to S3 bucket I made using this command;

> sam package --template-file template.yaml \
 --output-template-file packaged-template.yaml \
 --s3-bucket sample-sinatra-application

You will find the result as below;

Uploading to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  64727 / 64727.0  (100.00%)
Successfully packaged artifacts and wrote output template to file packaged-template.yaml.
Execute the following command to deploy the packaged template
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file /path/to/serverless-sinatra-sample/packaged-template.yaml --stack-name <YOUR STACK NAME>

Deployment

I deploy the application with sam command;

> sam deploy --template-file packaged-template.yaml \
 --stack-name LambdaSinatra \
 --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

You will find the result as below;

Waiting for changeset to be created..
Waiting for stack create/update to complete
Successfully created/updated stack - LambdaSinatra

I will be able to confirm the result in AWS Console;

Confirm the app

You have to click SinatraAPI which locate Resources in overview.
And you can click the URL as below;

Example1: Top_Page
https://XXXXX.execute-api.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/Prod/
Example2: API
https://XXXXX.execute-api.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/Prod/hello-world

{"Output":"Hello World!"}

Example3:* Feedback_Page https://XXXXX.execute-api.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/Prod/feedback

Conclusion

It is the first time for me to write down a article in English. But I noticed that I do not need to do because the tutorial is written in English...

Now that I write, I will publish this article.