Rails Environment Variables Using Credentials

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Strategy to access your Rails.application.credentials from ENV.
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D Dale Zak

Usage
Read Rails Environment Variables Using Credentials for full details, once the template is installed you can access Rails.application.credentials using ENV.

ENV['HEROKU_APP_NAME'] # access Heroku defined variables
ENV['GITHUB_API_KEY'] # access variables from your credentials
ENV['git_api_key'] # also access variables in lowercase
ENV['rails_env_key'] # access environment specific variables

Run this command in your Rails app directory in the terminal:

rails app:template LOCATION="https://railsbytes.com/script/Vp7s90"
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Review the code before running this template on your machine.

inject_into_file 'config/application.rb', after: "< Rails::Application\n" do <<-EOF
    
    credentials.config.each do |key, value|
      if key.to_s == Rails.env.to_s
        value.each do |env_key, env_value|
          ENV[env_key.to_s.upcase] = env_value.to_s if ENV[env_key.to_s.upcase].blank?
          ENV[env_key.to_s.downcase] = env_value.to_s if ENV[env_key.to_s.downcase].blank?
        end
      elsif ['development', 'staging', 'test', 'production'].include?(key.to_s) == false
        ENV[key.to_s.upcase] = value.to_s if ENV[key.to_s.upcase].blank?
        ENV[key.to_s.downcase] = value.to_s if ENV[key.to_s.downcase].blank?
      end
    end
    
EOF
end
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