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"app error: Missing `secret_token` and `secret_key_base` for 'production' environment"
- Posted on February 10, 2015
Asked by lhagemann
Using the 1-Click Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 14.04 Image, I’m getting the following error on initial request to the app:
ERROR: app error: Missing `secret_token` and `secret_key_base` for 'production' environment, set these values in `config/secrets.yml` (RuntimeError)
my config/secrets.yml file includes the following:
# Do not keep production secrets in the repository,
# instead read values from the environment.
production:
secret_key_base: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>
secret_token: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>
and I’ve set ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"]
stack: ‘rails’, ‘4.2.0’ ruby ‘2.1.3’ unicorn (4.8.3)
all my reading says that secret_token is no longer used in Rails 4.2.
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Include in /etc/default/unicorn export SECRET_KEY_BASE=your_code
I use this with capistrano. it works nice:
I create a file: config/local_env.yml, put my variables there
and then in application rb
config.before_configuration do env_file = File.join(Rails.root, ‘config’, ‘local_env.yml’) YAML.load(File.open(env_file)).each do |key, value| ENV[key.to_s] = value end if File.exists?(env_file) end
I can refute Unicorn not being able to read environment variables.
I am using a similar stack (rbenv, nginx, Unicorn) on CentOS machines and I set environment variables with rbenv-vars (although I have been using custom scripts in /etc/profile.d and they also worked like a charm).
I published an article about Rails and environment variables yesterday (http://www.relativkreativ.at/articles/what-you-should-now-before-setting-environment-variables-for-your-rails-application) – while it does not solve your problem, it may point you in the right direction …