amazon-dynamodb How to create a DynamoDB Table Create Table in Ruby using AWS SDK v2

Example

In following example we will create table movies with AWS Ruby SDK v2. Here, each Movie as one unique Partition Key as id, and Range Key year. Apart from this we want to be able to query movies with their name, hence we will create a Global Secondary Index (GSI) name-year-index with name as Hash Key and year as Range Key. Movie can have other attributes such as released, created_at, actor and actress. Schema for the table is shown below:

Table Name: movies

Partition Key	Range Key	Global Secondary Index	Attributes
id	year	name	released , created_at, actor, actress

# it's better to initialize client as global variable in initializer
$ddb ||= Aws::DynamoDB::Client.new({
  access_key_id: ENV["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"],
  secret_access_key: ENV["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"]
})

# create table API
$ddb.create_table({

  # array of attributes name and their type that describe schema for the Table and Indexes
  attribute_definitions: [
    {
      attribute_name: "id",
      attribute_type: "N"
    }
    {
      attribute_name: "name",
      attribute_type: "S",
    },
    {
      attribute_name: "year",
      attribute_type: "N",
    }
  ],

  # key_schema specifies the attributes that make up the primary key for a table
  # HASH - specifies Partition Key
  # RANGE - specifies Range Key  
  # key_type can be either HASH or RANGE  
  key_schema: [
    {
      attribute_name: "id",
      key_type: "HASH",
    },
    {
      attribute_name: "year",
      key_type: "RANGE",
    }
  ],

  # global_secondary_indexes array specifies one or more keys that makes up index, with name of index and provisioned throughput for global secondary indexes
  global_secondary_indexes: [
    
    index_name: "name-year-index",
    key_schema: [
        {
            attribute_name: "name",
            key_type: "HASH"
        },
        {
            attribute_name: "year",
            key_type: "RANGE"
        }
    ],

    # Projection - Specifies attributes that are copied (projected) from the table into the index.
    # Allowed values are - ALL, INCLUDE, KEYS_ONLY
    # KEYS_ONLY - only the index and primary keys are projected into the index.
    # ALL - All of the table attributes are projected into the index.
    # INCLUDE - Only the specified table attributes are projected into the index. The list of projected attributes are then needs to be specified in non_key_attributes array
    projection: {
        projection_type: "ALL"
    },
    
    # Represents the provisioned throughput settings for specified index.
    provisioned_throughput: {
        read_capacity_units: 1,
        write_capacity_units: 1
    }
  ],  

  # Represents the provisioned throughput settings for specified table.  
  provisioned_throughput: {
    read_capacity_units: 1,
    write_capacity_units: 1,
  },
  table_name: "movies"
})

# wait till table is created
$ddb.wait_until(:table_exists, {table_name: "movies"})