Environment variables on production

Question

I’m currently deploying my Rails application on Amazon and I’m facing a problem with environment variables.

I\'m using the dotenv gem on development and testing and

Answer 1

The dotenv-deployment readme mentions how you can use it in a production environment:

If you're using Capistrano 3+:

Just add .env to your list of linked_files:

set :linked_files, %w{.env}

If you're using Capistrano 2.x.x version:

In your config/deploy.rb file:

require "dotenv/capistrano"

It will symlink the .env located in /path/to/shared in the new release.

Remember to add :production group to the dotenv-rails gem in your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dotenv-rails', :groups => [:development, :test, :production]