# Using AWS RDS with Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 23, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475 "2010-04-23T18:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soesan01)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475/1 "2010-04-23T18:58:33Z")

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Guys,

Could you give pointer how I can use AWS RDS with rails?

Is there any plugins to accomplish this?

Thank you for you help.

Yudi

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**Author:** ![soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soesan01)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475/2 "2010-04-24T18:38:25Z")

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Hi Yudi,

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yudi S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> Could you give pointer how I can use AWS RDS with rails?
> 
> Is there any plugins to accomplish this?

Assuming you’ve already got an RDS instance set up, all you need to do  
is  
modify your database.yml file to point to it.

HTH,  
Bill

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**Author:** ![soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soesan01)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475/3 "2010-04-24T18:49:32Z")

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Thanks for your reply Bill.

I don’t have RDS instance set up yet. I am blank about RDS stuff.  
Maybe, you could help me? Any documentation how to setup RDS instance?

Thank You,  
Ys

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**Author:** ![soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soesan01)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475/4 "2010-04-24T20:52:27Z")

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Hi Yudi,

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Yudi S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Bill.
> 
> I don’t have RDS instance set up yet. I am blank about RDS stuff.  
> Maybe, you could help me? Any documentation how to setup RDS instance?
> 
> The best recommendation I can give is to download the Amazon docs and use  
> their tutorial. The tools are not hard to use in terms of setting up an  
> instance, but IMHO it sucks that they don’t have a console interface  
> yet.  
> Still, rds is a good offering and you can connect to it with your local  
> gui  
> front end, I’m told. Frankly, I haven’t been able to get that working  
> yet  
> but it’s probably just a time-availability problem on my part.

Best regards,  
Bill

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**Author:** ![soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@soesan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soesan01)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-aws-rds-with-rails/187475/5 "2010-04-24T19:14:10Z")

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Yudi S. wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Bill.
> 
> I don’t have RDS instance set up yet. I am blank about RDS stuff.  
> Maybe, you could help me? Any documentation how to setup RDS instance?

Don’t you think you could get that documentation more readily from  
Amazon/AWS’s website? Why ask here?

> Thank You,  
> Ys

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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