How do I configure a secret file contain secret keys to digital ocean hosted app?

February 9, 2015 2.6k views
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Hi guys, my ROR app uses Stripe to handle payment transactions. When our app was hosted using Heroku, we had the Stripe api keys inside a secret application.yml file. But now that we are hosted under DOcean, am I right in thinking that we need to configure this application.yml file to digital ocean? If so, please may I ask for some help out points please? I'm really stuck and some pointers would be much appreciated thank you!

Harry

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asb MOD February 12, 2015

A lot of this depends on how you deploy your application. A general best practice followed by many developers is to use environmental variables to hold secret tokens. Rails 4.1 introduced the config/secrets.yml file in order to standardize how to access thing like this in applications.

If you used the environmental variable STRIPE_TOKEN to hold your token, you can source it in your config/secrets.yml like:

production:
  stripe_token: <%= ENV["STRIPE_TOKEN"] %>

You can now access it using Rails.application.secrets.stripe_token

dotenv is a useful gem that loads the contents of a .env file into ENV

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