Simple S3 writes in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY = 'WHATEVER'
AMAZON_SECRET_KEY = 'SECRET_WHATEVER'

# I'm old-school, so I like the AWS-S3 gem. It's just a lightweight wrapper around Amazon's API.
# https://github.com/marcel/aws-s3
require "aws/s3"
include AWS::S3

def publish_json!(bucket='int.nyt.com', path='applications/represent-json/', filename='foo.json')

  some_json = "{'title': 'Hi, my name is JSON!'}"

  # Create AWS connection
  Base.establish_connection!(
    :access_key_id => AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY,
    :secret_access_key => AMAZON_SECRET_KEY
  )

  # Store the file in S3
  S3Object.store(path + filename,
    some_json, # JSON string to upload goes here
    bucket,
    :content_type => 'application/json', # This = important
    :cache_control => 'public,max-age=300') # 5-minute TTL, but you can go shorter
  end

publish_json!