Setting up our Amazon machines

start_server.rb

# Creating the EC2 Instance

instance = ec2.instances.create(
    :image_id => "ami-7739b41e",
    :instance_type => 'cc2.8xlarge',
    :key_name => "CloudshipCreateServerKey",
    :instance_initiated_shutdown_behavior => 'terminate',
    :block_device_mappings => {
      "/dev/sda1" => {
        :volume_size => 50,
        :delete_on_termination => true
      }
    })

# Pushing scripts into the server and start building the machine

Net::SSH.start(instance.ip_address) do |ssh|
  `tar -czf scripts.tar.gz *`
  ssh.sftp.upload!("./scripts.tar.gz", "/root/scripts.tar.gz")
  ssh.exec! "sudo mkdir /root/scripts"
  ssh.exec! "sudo tar xf /root/scripts.tar.gz -C /root/scripts"
  ssh.exec "sudo nohup time /bin/bash /root/scripts/server_setup/host/start_host.sh #{ENV['AWS_KEY']} #{ENV['AWS_SECRET_KEY']} #{instance.id} &> /dev/null &"
end