Client side script for getting the address for an EC2 Instance

get_ec2_address_for_putty.rb

ssh_my_server.rb

require 'open-uri'

#not real names
Server = "MyServer"
bootstrap_data_json = open('http://my_iris.iriscouch.com/bootie/' + Server){|f| f.read}

bootstrap_data_raw = JSON.parse(bootstrap_data_json)
srv_name = bootstrap_data_raw["_id"]
ip_addr = bootstrap_data_raw["ip"]

putty_cmd = "start putty.exe" \
            " -i \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\path\\to\\my\\keypair.ppk\" \
            " ec2-user@#{ip_addr}"