I installed rails on an instance on amazon AMI. I installed all the dependencies for rails. I even copied the code through scp. When i ssh to the instance i ran
rails s
The server is running. How can I view it from the browser? from the Public DNS???
Your amazon ec2 instance has a public ip address and domain name, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-instance-addressing.html
use this domain name as the URL in your browser.
You will also have to set inbound traffic / port connections in the security group of the instance.
A word of warning: with "rails s" you are starting webrick, a server that is only meant to be used in development. You probably should use a production server like apache + mod_passenger.
For more advanced usage of ec2 and ruby on rails see
http://railscasts.com/episodes/347-rubber-and-amazon-ec2?view=asciicast
