Screenshot websites with Ruby on Rails and Google Puppeteer on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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2 min readMay 22, 2020
From zero to a Rails app that takes full-page screenshots of URLs took less than an hour of development on macOS. To get this deployed to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk EC2 server took several more hours. The difficulty came from Amazon Linux 2 which has many missing dependencies and does not easily provide all of them via the yum package manager. Most…
