I am microbiology student and using Amazon EC2 to run a bunch of experiments. I am now working on creating a ruby on rails app that will act like a dashboard for my account, using this app I can view the existing instances, view the existing images, snapshots and I also want to have a feature of creating a new ec2 instance from an existing image. I am using the ruby sdk http://aws.amazon.com/articles/8621639827664165 that amazon provides. I am very new to ruby on rails programing, so wondering if people here know of some good sample code which shows interaction with amazon APIs using rails. I did go through some samples on the github site but did not find anything specific to interactions with amazon APIs. This will be very helpful, thanks a lot.
-Hilary
You can always try the right-aws gem which is a wrapper around the EC2 APIs that are part of AWS.