Can you run a rails console or rake command in the

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 effectively empty. If I move up a directory, there is also a /home/webapp directory that i do not have access to.

Is there a way to run a rake command or rails console on my elastic beanstalk instance?

If I type rails console I get Usage: rails new APP_PATH [options] If I type RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails console, I get "Could not locate Gemfile"

Answer 1

None of these solutions mentioned here worked for me, so I cooked up a little script that I put in script/aws-console.

You can run it from the /var/app/current directory as root:

eb ssh
cd /var/app/current
sudo script/aws-console

My script can be found as a Gist here.