Rails 4 Dragonfly Gem with Amazon S3 Direct Upload

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate S3 with dragonfly. This gem works locally, but because I'm using Heroku, the files gets deleted... so, I'm thinking I need to implement it into S3.

I'm using this gem: dragonfly-s3_data_store where my dragonfly.rb looks like this:

/config/initializers/dragonfly.rb

require 'dragonfly'
require 'dragonfly/s3_data_store'

# Configure
Dragonfly.app.configure do
  plugin :imagemagick

  url_format "/media/:job/:name"

  datastore :s3,
    bucket_name: 'thelab',
    access_key_id: '{my access key}',
    secret_access_key: '{my secret key}',
    region: "us-west-1"
end

... #more code

This is my error when I'm trying to upload an image:

hostname "thelab.thelab.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" does not match the server certificate (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

I'm not sure what's causing the issue, but also on my console, I see this popping up:

[fog][WARNING] fog: followed redirect to thelab.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com, connecting to the matching region will be more performant

There's inconsistency here... I've also tried to switch the region to us-west-2, but I still get the same errors and warning signs.

form:

= simple_form_for(resource, as: resource_name, url: registration_path(resource_name), html: { method: :put }) do |f|
  = f.file_field :image
  = f.button :submit, "Save changes"

And of course, the model, in this case user.rb, has this:

dragonfly_accessor :image

Am I missing anything else that needs to be configured?

Also, my CORS Configuration for thelab bucket

<CORSConfiguration>
    <CORSRule>
        <AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin>
        <AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
        <MaxAgeSeconds>3000</MaxAgeSeconds>
        <AllowedHeader>Authorization</AllowedHeader>
    </CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>