Confection

This is an example application that shows you how to use AWS S3 and CloudFront to optimize serving static assets.

Heroku Setup

clone or fork the repository.
log in to your aws s3 console.
create a new s3 bucket
log in to your aws cloudfront console
create a new download distribution and use your s3 bucket as the origin server.
create a copy of the file .env.example called .env and add your AWS security credentials, bucket name and cloudfront domain.
create a copy of database.yml.example called database.yml.
create a copy of config/heroku_setup.sh.example called config/heroku_setup.sh and insert your settings.
rake assets:precompile
heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate
heroku run rake db:seed
bash script/heroku_setup.sh
heroku open

** Never check your AWS security credentials in to a public repository **

Enjoy!