zerigo_to_aws_route53.rb

#!/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'zerigo_dns'
require 'route53'

Zerigo::DNS::Base.user = '[email protected]'
Zerigo::DNS::Base.api_key = 'yourkeyhere'

# iterate through all domain names
domains = Zerigo::DNS::Zone.find(:all)

domains.each do |z|
  puts "#{z.domain} (id: #{z.id})"

  hosts = Zerigo::DNS::Host.find(:all, :params=>{ :zone_id => z.id, :per_page=>100, :page=>1 })

  host_map = {}
  hosts.each do |host|
    host.hostname = '' if host.hostname.nil?
    host_map[host.hostname] = {} unless host_map[host.hostname].present?
    host_map[host.hostname][host.host_type] = [] unless host_map[host.hostname][host.host_type].present?
    host_map[host.hostname][host.host_type] << { :fqdn => host.fqdn, :priority => host.priority, :hostname => host.hostname, :data => host.data }
  end

  puts "Connecting to Route 53"
  aws = Route53::Connection.new('access_key_id', 'secret_key')

  puts "Creating zone on Route 53"
  new_zone = Route53::Zone.new("#{z.domain}.", nil, aws)
  response = new_zone.create_zone
  exit 1 if response.error?

  while response.pending?
    sleep 1
  end

  puts "Zone created on Route 53"
  host_map.each do |hostname, records|
    puts "  Hostname: #{hostname.blank? ? 'domain apex' : hostname}"
    records.each do |record_type, values|
      puts "  Record type: #{record_type}"
      case record_type
      when "A", "CNAME"
        values.each do |record|
          new_record = Route53::DNSRecord.new("#{ record[:fqdn] }.", record_type, "600", [ "#{ record[:data] }#{ '.' if record_type != 'A' }" ], new_zone)
          resp = new_record.create
        end
      when "MX"
        fqdn = values.first[:fqdn]
        new_mx_record = Route53::DNSRecord.new("#{fqdn}.", "MX", "600", values.collect{ |record| "#{ record[:priority] } #{ record[:data] }." }, new_zone)
        resp = new_mx_record.create
      when "TXT", "SPF"
        fqdn = values.first[:fqdn]
        new_txt_record = Route53::DNSRecord.new("#{fqdn}.", record_type, "600", values.collect{ |record| "\"#{ record[:data] }\"" }, new_zone)
        resp = new_txt_record.create
      end
    end
  end
end

I had to use the following Gemfile to get this working:

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem 'zerigo_dns', git: 'https://github.com/Shuttlerock/zerigo_dns.git'
gem 'route53'
gem 'activeresource', '~> 3.2.0'