Why is Ruby on Rails secrets.yml not loading?
I am trying to access my secret keys from the config/secrets.yml file. secrets.yml: development: secret_key_base: laksjfla...alskdfjlaksjdflaksd other_secret: password Rails Console: $ rails c > Rails.application.secrets > => {:secret_key_base=>"laksjfla...alskdfjlaksjdflaksd"} Where is my other_secret ?! I've faced a similar problem once, try to reload spring server with bin/spring stop , so the changes to secrets.yml should take effect. then run rails c again. (posting comment as a answer). There is an open pull request here - https://github.com/rails/spring/pull/289 - spring does not watch