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Unicorn not reading environment variables correctly

Posted January 31, 2014 12.7k views
Hi Guys. I have deployed a rails app on ubuntu using the on-click-install droplet, everything is working correctly except for some environment variables that are not been read by my app. I have defined these variables on /etc/environment as follow: export S3_BUCKET=mybucket export S3_KEY=HJKD.... export S3_SECRET=+iSJKL..... After defined those variable I did the source /etc/environment, I also have restarted the droplet but in my app those variables are NIL. ENV['S3_BUCKET'] === nil Any help would be appreciate. Regards
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kamaln7 January 31, 2014
Edit /etc/default/unicorn and insert the export lines into it. Does that work?
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crysfel January 31, 2014
Yes! it works!! thank you so much for your help!!

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kamaln7 February 1, 2014
Awesome!
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denisinla July 1, 2014

/etc/default/unicorn should contain the following:

# ENV Variables for S3
export S3_KEY='YOUR_S3_KEY_HERE'
export S3_SECRET='YOUR_S3_SECRET_HERE'
export S3_BUCKET='YOUR_BUCKET_HERE'
export S3_REGION='YOUR_BUCKET_REGION'

By default your S3 region should be us-east-1, if it is then don’t define a region. Otherwise define the region, in my my case its ‘us-west-1’.

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