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

None of these were working for me, including the aws-console script. I finally ended up creating a script directory in /var/app/current and then creating a rails file in that directory as outline by this answer on another SO question.

eb ssh myEnv
cd /var/app/current
sudo mkdir script
sudo vim script/rails

Add this to file and save:

echo #!/usr/bin/env ruby
# This command will automatically be run when you run "rails" with Rails 3 gems installed from the root of your application.

APP_PATH = File.expand_path('../../config/application',  __FILE__)
require File.expand_path('../../config/boot',  __FILE__)
require 'rails/commands'

Then make it executable and run it:

sudo chmod +x script/rails
sudo script/rails console

And it worked.