Posted: 2011-01-01 - Last updated: 2019-06-05

Tagged amazon s3 cloudfront hosting cloud

require 's3'
require 'digest/md5'
require 'mime/types'

## These are some constants to keep track of my S3 credentials and
## bucket name. Nothing fancy here.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "xxxxx"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "yyyyy"
AWS_BUCKET = "my_bucket"


## This defines the rake task `assets:deploy`.
namespace :assets do
  desc "Deploy all assets in public/**/* to S3/Cloudfront"
  task :deploy, :env, :branch do |t, args|

## Minify all CSS files
    Rake::Task[:minify].execute

## Use the `s3` gem to connect my bucket
    puts "== Uploading assets to S3/Cloudfront"

    service = S3::Service.new(
      :access_key_id => AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
      :secret_access_key => AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
    bucket = service.buckets.find(AWS_BUCKET)

## Needed to show progress
    STDOUT.sync = true

## Find all files (recursively) in ./public and process them.
    Dir.glob("public/**/*").each do |file|

## Only upload files, we're not interested in directories
      if File.file?(file)

## Slash 'public/' from the filename for use on S3
        remote_file = file.gsub("public/", "")

## Try to find the remote_file, an error is thrown when no
## such file can be found, that's okay.
        begin
          obj = bucket.objects.find_first(remote_file)
        rescue
          obj = nil
        end

## If the object does not exist, or if the MD5 Hash / etag of the
## file has changed, upload it.
        if !obj || (obj.etag != Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read(file)))
            print "U"

## Simply create a new object, write the content and set the proper
## mime-type. `obj.save` will upload and store the file to S3.
            obj = bucket.objects.build(remote_file)
            obj.content = open(file)
            obj.content_type = MIME::Types.type_for(file).to_s
            obj.save
        else
          print "."
        end
      end
    end
    STDOUT.sync = false # Done with progress output.

    puts
    puts "== Done syncing assets"
  end
end

    $ rake deploy:production
    (in /Users/ariejan/Code/Sites/ariejannet)
    Deploying master to production
    == Minifying CSS
    == Done
    == Uploading assets to S3/Cloudfront
    ......................................U.........
    == Done syncing assets

    Updating ariejannet-production with branch master
    Counting objects: 40, done.
    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (30/30), 4.24 KiB, done.
    Total 30 (delta 17), reused 0 (delta 0)

    -----> Heroku receiving push