Problem

You would like to get access to your rails application console on an Amazon ec2 instance, and you are also using rvm.

Solution

• Login with ssh to your server as normal:

  ssh name@myserver.com -i amazon_key

• Go to your application’s current folder:

  cd /my/project/directory/current/

• Run the following replacing the environment with your specific environment (ie production,beta,staging etc):

  bundle exec rails c environment