Rails Active Storage push to DigitalOcean Spaces - ruby-on-rails

Question

Hi I'm trying to get active storage to push to a DigitalOcean space. However, I'm finding that the push url is being changed to amazonaws.com even though I've defined the endpoint to digital ocean.
here is what I have in storage.yml
amazon:
service: S3
access_key_id: <%= Rails.application.credentials.dig(:aws, :access_key_id) %>
secret_access_key: <%= Rails.application.credentials.dig(:aws, :secret_access_key) %>
region: sfo2
bucket: redacted_bucket_name
endpoint: https://sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com
When I try to upload a file, I get the following error:
Aws::Errors::NoSuchEndpointError (Encountered a `SocketError` while attempting to connect to:
https://redacted_bucket_name.s3.sfo2.amazonaws.com/a8278561714955c23ee99
in my gemfile I have: gem 'aws-sdk-s3
I've followed the directions found here, and I'm still getting the error. Is it possible that there's a new way to do this?

Answer 1

I just set something like this up myself a few days ago. When you check the URL https://redacted_bucket_name.s3.sfo2.amazonaws.com/a8278561714955c23ee99 it's different from the actual endpoint you set up https://redacted_bucket_name.sfo2.amazonaws.com/a8278561714955c23ee99
the error is being caused by an invalid endpoint your hitting, the s3 right before the .sfo2 is offsetting the endpoint. Did you happen to add s3 to your spaces config? check your spaces dashboard and try to get the endpoint setup properly.

Answer 2

I had this same challenge when working on a Rails 6 application in Ubuntu 20.04.
Here's how I fixed mine:
Firstly, create a Spaces access keys in your digital ocean console. This link should help - DigitalOcean Spaces API
Secondly, add a new configuration for DigitalOcean Spaces in your config/storage.yml file. Just after the local storage definition:
# Use rails credentials:edit to set the AWS secrets (as aws:access_key_id|secret_access_key)
digital_ocean:
service: S3
access_key_id: <%= SPACES_ACCESS_KEY_ID %>
secret_access_key: <%= SPACES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY %>
region: <%= SPACES_REGION %>
bucket: <%= SPACES_BUCKET_NAME %>
endpoint: <%= SPACES_ENDPOINT %>
Note: You can give your entry any name, say digital_ocean_spaces or something else. For me I named it digital_ocean.
Thirdly, modify the config.active_storage.service configuration in the config/environments/production.rb file from:
config.active_storage.service = :local
to
config.active_storage.service = :digital_ocean
Finally, specify these environment variables file in your config/application.yml file (if you're using the Figaro gem) or your .env file. (if you're using the dotenv gem). In my case I was using the dotenv gem, so my .env file looked looked like this:
SPACES_ACCESS_KEY_ID=E4TFWVPDBLRTLUNZEIFMR
SPACES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=BBefjTJTFHYVNThun7GUPCeT2rNDJ4UxGLiSTM70Ac3NR
SPACES_REGION=nyc3
SPACES_BUCKET_NAME=my-spaces
SPACES_ENDPOINT=https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
That's all.
I hope this helps