This guide will provide you some basic steps to create a Bitnami RoR Amazon EC2 instance, using Nginx with Passenger.
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Create an Amazon EC2 instance using a Community AMI. At the time of writing, the latest Bitnami AMI is: bitnami-rubystack-2.2.4-4-linux-ubuntu-14.04.1-x86_64-hvm-ebs Be careful to open SSH, HTTP and HTTPS ports on the "Step 6: Configure Security Group". You will need to save also the certificate to later connect to the instance.
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Log in by SSH to the instance: