Secrets.yml 未在 Rails 中加载

Question

I have some data in my local secrets.yml . Now I have added 2 more secrets, but in rails console these secrets are not coming. Even I edit old keys in the secrets.yml and then open console again but still not able to view the updated data. It means that secrets.yml is not loading properly.

I tried to execute bin/spring stop but no luck.

Is it because, secrets.yml is in gitignore?

I also try to remove secrets.yml from the application. Then open rails console again. I can still see the old secrets. I changed the secrets.yml manually in the netbeans editor.

I have executed Rails.application.secrets.api_key I can see it. Then using netbeans, I added 1 more key ie secret_key but I am unable to access it in rails console using Rails.application.secrets.secret_key

I reopened the terminal several times but no luck.

My Rails version is 5.1.4

Answer 1

I just restarted my computer , open terminal again and it works. Strange, I dont understand the issue but it works

Answer 2

After Rails 5.1 you can't update your secrets.yml by manually. You need to first decrypt it, edit it and then encrypt again. Safest way to do so is following these commands in console.

First you need to run this command in your console. I'm not sure if it can be used by netbeans so i will write manual for vim editor, which every console can handle.

EDITOR="vim" bin/rails secrets:edit

In here you need to very careful because most of the developers having hard time using vim editor.

1. Press i button

2. Make your changes

3. Press escape button

4. Then press ':' button and type wq (it should look like this :wq) and press enter

5. You will see a message like this File encrypted and saved. in your console.
6. You can check your secrets.yml by again typing EDITOR="vim" bin/rails secrets:edit to make sure everything is updated correctly

Changing secrets.yml in rails 5.1+