Host Vendor Portal with Rails: Public Profile Assets

Summary

Deploy a vendor portal built with Rails on Ample using the public image delivery pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL, a private S3-compatible bucket holds objects with credentials delivered as encrypted environment variables, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on Rails: public objects in a published bucket served from the CDN URL, kept separate from private objects in an unpublished bucket that require authorization (private=ok only for the allowed role). Not separately tested: your image processing and profile-media rules; treat the vendor portal-specific behavior as your application code.

Requirements

• Resource Requirements:

  • primitive:compute
  • primitive:postgres
  • primitive:s3-compatible-object-storage
  • primitive:cdn

• Infrastructure Requirements:

  1. Compute: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
  2. Postgres: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
  3. S3-compatible Object Storage: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.
  4. CDN: The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.

Workflow Steps

1. Build and Start: bundle install into vendor/bundle from Gemfile.lock (development and test groups skipped), then Puma via rails server reading PORT on the ruby-3.4 template with RAILS_ENV=production. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. Implement the Pattern on PostgreSQL: The fixture's module implements public image delivery: public objects in a published bucket served from the CDN URL, kept separate from private objects in an unpublished bucket that require authorization (private=ok only for the allowed role). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. Wire Object Storage: Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing. Keep private data in an unpublished bucket. Publish only the bucket that serves public assets and reference its CDN URL.
4. Deploy: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op.
5. Verify: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/public-media-library, /p/private-document-library) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs --kind build then --kind runtime.

Examples

• Rails Pattern Fixture: Multi-pattern Rails app whose public image delivery module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.

Success Checks

1. App responds on its public URL.
2. Public-media-library self-test.
3. Private-document-library self-test.

Limitations

• Verified on the ruby-3.4 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Rails major versions are not verified.

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Note: Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

Next Actions

• Browse the catalog index
• Search published recipes by intent, stack and constraints
• Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project

For more details, refer to the full documentation.