Production.rb不读取生产中的环境变量

Question

I'm using this action mailer setup for a production application

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    address:              'smtp.gmail.com',
    port:                 587,
    domain:               'example.com',
    user_name:            ENV['EMAIL'],
    password:             ENV['EMAIL_PASSWORD'],
    authentication:       'login',
    enable_starttls_auto: true
  }

On my DigitalOcean droplet (Ubuntu 14.04) I ran

export EMAIL="email"
export EMAIL_PASSWORD="password"

However, It's not working. I also tried adding them to my .bashrc file and that didn't work either.

I know that other posts might suggest using something like the figaro gem or dotenv, however, I wouldn't really know how to use those gems in my situation. This application is for a client who wants to use smtp for sending emails. I wouldn't be able to get their credentials and store them on my local machine. Luckily, It's very easy to access the server on DigitalOcean because it has a built-in ssh feature on the website that allows you to access the droplets.

This means that they would have to manually enter in the lines export EMAIL="theiremailgoeshere" and the same for the password. But as stated, this isn't working for some reason

Any help is appreaciated, thank you so much!

I don't know if this will help but I'm using a Digital Ocean droplet to host my website. I have an Ubuntu (14.04) image running on it and I'm using Nginx and Passenger.

Answer 1

Env vars from ~/.bashrc are only set for programs that are opened using the bash shell. Also there is a problem if you are ssh'ing into the system as one user and your the web server is running as a separate lesser privileged user.

You can set system wide env vars in Ubuntu in /etc/environment and /etc/profile.d/*.sh . These ENV vars will be set for all users and all shells opened - and even programs opened from the GUI.

However I would recommend you use a more specific key to like MYAPP_EMAIL avoid potential conflicts.