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Brian_Alexander
Asked: 2020-08-19 06:31:53 +0800 CST 2020-08-19 06:31:53 +0800 CST

How to generate config/secrets.yml file in Rails?

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It turns out that I just started a project in RoR and my project does not contain the secrets.yml file, I would like to know how to generate one or make the original one appear that should be hidden somewhere.

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    The secret is no longer generated in rails 5 now other files are used, if your rails is greater than 5 then you will need to use the command EDITOR="vim" bin/rails credentials:editthe value of your EDITOR may also nanodepend on which one you have installed EDITOR="nano" bin/rails credentials:edit.

    If your rails is less than 4 then here is an example of your secrets:

    development:
  secret_key_base: super_long_secret_key_for_development
  active_merchant_login: 896667
  active_merchant_password: supersecretpassword888

test:
  secret_key_base: super_long_secret_key_for_test
  active_merchant_login: 896667
 active_merchant_password: supersecretpassword888

production:
  secret_key_base: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>
  active_merchant_login: <%= ENV["AM_LOGIN"] %>
  active_merchant_password: <%= ENV["AM_PASSWORD"] %>

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  2. Also, in a production environment you must create the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable and assign it a key generated by the rails secret command.

    C:>rails secret 175501ea97a18f4f153b0f8df3c10a3ce97f09871bb5eb88c5ae9998b1a089c06bff6f88eb57bc94a8ff1d635ff0fa7a58df108e7e7d10c664f9234862a13714

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    • How credentials are used in Rails 5.2 Spotify API example:

      • To consume Spotify data it is necessary to register the App that we developed, you can do it in the following link Spotify
      • When using Ruby on Rails 5.2, we have to add the access data of the app that we register, to the file "../config/credentials.yml.enc" that is, the «Client ID» and «Client Secret»
      • To modify the file "../config/credentials.yml.enc", in the terminal (or command line) we must be located in the project directory and execute the command EDITOR=nano rails credentials:edit, then add the «Client ID» data and the "Client Secret"

      • It should look similar to the following 

        development:
  spotify:
   access_key_id: abc123
   secret_access_key: abc123  

production:
  spotify:
    access_key_id: abc123_
    secret_access_key: abc123_

      • "../config/master.key" should be added to ".gitignore" as it is the decryption key.

    This answer is extracted from another question, the complete example with the spotyfy API is in this link

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