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require 'open-uri'

module EY
  module Metadata
    # An adapter that reads from Amazon EC2's metadata web service, which is only available from cloud instances.
    class AmazonEc2Api
      # The present instance's Amazon Ec2 instance id.
      def present_instance_id
        open("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id").gets
      end

      # The present instance's Amazon Ec2 security group.
      def present_security_group
        open('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/security-groups').gets
      end
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

6 entries across 6 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
engineyard-metadata-0.1.2	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb
engineyard-metadata-0.1.1	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb
engineyard-metadata-0.1.0	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb
engineyard-metadata-0.0.7	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb
engineyard-metadata-0.0.6	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb
engineyard-metadata-0.0.5	lib/engineyard-metadata/amazon_ec2_api.rb