Setting up private Github access with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Ruby container

Question

Going by a recent tutorial on setting up AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Ruby deployment using Git, I just set up a Elastic Beanstalk environment from my CI server. However, the a

Answer 1

If you're in a hurry, and your application repo is also private, you can create an additional Github user account and assign it read-only privileges to the repo containing the gem.

Then give bundler the https url with the new account's credentials:

gem 'somegemname', git: "https://username:password@github.com/example/privaterepository"