rails 3, how use an ENV config vars in a Settings.yml file?

Question

In my settings.yml file I have several config vars, some of which reference ENV[] variables.

for example I have ENV[\'FOOVAR\'] equals WIDGET

I thought I cou

Answer 1

use following:-

 default:
       cv1: Foo
       cv2: <%= ENV['FOOVAR'] %>

Answer 2

Use <%= ENV['FOOVAR'] %> instead of <% ENV['FOOVAR'] %>.

Be aware that this approach will only work if whatever is parsing the Yaml file is set up to process it via Erb (for example, you can see how Mongoid does exactly this). It's not universally supported in Yaml files though, so it depends on what you're using this Yaml file for.

Answer 3

I was able to resolve this with simple code

data = {}
YAML.load_file("path_of_file/settings.yml").each do |key, value|
  data[key] = ENV[value] || value
end 

where my data was something like this

account: ACCOUNT_USERNAME
password: ACCOUNT_PASSWORD
port: 5002

and ACCOUNT_USERNAME and ACCOUNT_PASSWORD are environment variables

Answer 4

The above solution did not work for me. However, I found the solution on How do I use variables in a YAML file?

My .yml file contained something like:

development:
gmail_username: <%= ENV["GMAIL_USERNAME"] %>
gmail_password: <%= ENV["GMAIL_PASSWORD"] %>

The solution looks like:

template = ERB.new File.new("path/to/config.yml.erb").read
processed = YAML.load template.result(binding)

So when you introduce a scriptlet tag in .yml file, it is more of erb template. So read it as a erb template first and then load the yml as shown above.