Can you run a rails console or rake command in the elastic beanstalk environment?

Question

I have set up a RoR environement on AWS\' elastic beanstalk. I am able to ssh into my EC2 instance. My home directory is /home/ec2-user, which is effective

Answer 1

add an eb extension shortcut:

# .ebextensions/irb.config
files:
  "/home/ec2-user/irb":
    mode: "000777"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      sudo su - -c 'cd /var/app/current; bundle exec rails c'

then:

$ eb ssh
$ ./irb
irb(main):001:0>