Question

I installed the paperclip plugin and was able to use it locally. When I configured it to work with amazon S3 I keep getting the NoSuchBucket (The specified bucket does not exist) error. Paperclip documentation states that the bucket will be created if it doesn’t exist but clearly
something is going wrong in my case.

I first insalled aws-s3 gem (v0.6.2)
then also installed right_aws gem (v1.9.0)

both have corresponding

config.gem "aws-s3", :lib => "aws/s3"
config.gem 'right_aws', :version => '1.9.0'

lines in environment.rb file

The code for the image.rb file with paperclip is as follows:

class Image < ActiveRecord::Base

    belongs_to  :work

    has_attached_file :photo, :styles => {:big => "612x1224>", :small => "180X360>", :thumb => "36x36#"},
                      :storage => 's3',
                      :s3_credentials => YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml")[RAILS_ENV],   
                      :path => ":attachment/:id/:style/:basename.:extension",
                      :bucket => 'my-unique-image-bucket'

    attr_protected :photo_file_name, :photo_content_type, :photo_size

    validates_attachment_presence :photo
    validates_attachment_size :photo, :less_than => 3.megabytes
    validates_attachment_content_type :photo, :content_type => ['image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/gif']

end

Answer 1

I’m not entirely sure this is it, but your loading of the s3_credentials is different than what I’m using on my production sites.

My config line is:

:s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml"

Instead of

:s3_credentials => YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml")[RAILS_ENV]