By gurume
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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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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