Author: Alex Wood

Introducing Transaction Support in aws-record The aws-record Ruby Gem is a data mapper abstraction layer over Amazon DynamoDB, a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Recently, support for transactions was added to DynamoDB. DynamoDB transactions simplify the developer experience of making coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within […]

At AWS re:Invent 2018, we announced Ruby support in AWS Lambda. The Ruby runtime in Lambda has built-in logic to make packaging your dependencies simple. AWS SAM CLI is a CLI tool currently in beta for local development and testing of serverless applications. It encapsulates several build, test, and deployment patterns for Lambda functions. Today, […]

The AWS SDK for Ruby provides a robust set of features for stubbing your clients, to make unit tests easier and less fragile. Many of you have used these features to stub your client calls. But in this post, we’re going to explore both a new stub feature in version 3 of the AWS SDK […]

We’re excited to announce today’s stable release of version 3 of the AWS SDK for Ruby. The SDK is now available with over 100 service-specific gems (starting with aws-sdk-*, such as aws-sdk-s3) on RubyGems. You can find a full list of available service gems can be found at our GitHub landing page. Features Version 3 of the AWS SDK for […]

Today, we’re pleased to announce the GA release of version 1.0.0 of the aws-record gem. What Is aws-record? In version 1 of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the AWS::Record class provided a data mapping abstraction over Amazon DynamoDB operations. Earlier this year, we released the aws-record developer preview as a separately packaged library to provide […]

We are happy to announce that the aws-record gem is now in Developer Preview and available for you to try. What Is Aws::Record? In version 1 of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the AWS::Record class provided a data mapping abstraction over Amazon DynamoDB operations. As version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby was being […]

With the release of V2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby, we’ve received customer feedback asking for support for the Ruby on Rails integration features provided by V1 of the SDK. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the aws-sdk-rails gem, available now via RubyGems and, of course, on GitHub. To get started, add […]

Earlier in this blog series, we showed you how to deploy a Ruby on Rails application to Amazon Web Services using AWS OpsWorks. In that example, we used an OpsWorks-managed MySQL database run on an Amazon EC2 instance. One common piece of feedback on that post was a desire to see how you can set […]

Last week, we had a great time meeting with AWS customers using Ruby at AWS re:Invent! We appreciate the feedback we received, and the discussions that we had with you. AWS SDK for Ruby Presentation Notes At AWS re:Invent this year I took many of you on a tour of version 2 of the AWS […]

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments. Ruby on Rails introduced the asset pipeline in version 3.1. The Rails asset pipeline […]