dotenv gem supports .env.test, .env.development, and .env.production https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv
-- Richard Schneeman http://heroku.com @schneems (http://twitter.com/schneems) On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Pedro Belo wrote: > This is a great question! > > I think ideally you should use different files for different environments: > .env/.env.test, for instance. Foreman can use a different env file with -e. > > In practice I had some trouble applying that to a Rails 2.3 app, though. In > particular because of the test database manipulation, Rails really needed > both database urls - so we ended up with a single .env containing both > DATABASE_URL and TEST_DATABASE_URL. > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:39 AM, vincent daubry <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > We manage a production and staging environment without any problem on > > Heroku, we followed these instructions : > > > > https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/multiple-environments > > > > I dont think the problem you have with the test environnement is related to > > heroku ? > > > > Anyway, you probably don't want to hit RabbitMQ in your unit tests, to > > avoid that we use a facade class with Rails.env.test? in the ruby code. All > > the environment variables related to external services are filled with > > dummy values in the test.rb config file. > > > > For example we would have : > > RABITMQ_URL = "fake_url" > > > > If our test suite fails because of a failed connection to RabbitMQ it means > > one of our test is not properly stubbed (which is a good piece of > > information !) > > > > If anyone have a better solution, i would be happy to hear it. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Vincent > > > > > > Le mardi 5 février 2013 18:30:53 UTC+1, Keenan a écrit : > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have all my configuration values in environment variables. > > > > > > But this seems to break down for running tests. > > > We only have 1 .env file that we source from .rvmrc. > > > So the same environment variables are used for both development and test > > > (rails console and rake spec) > > > > > > > > > The solution for handling the 2 environments with one set of variables is > > > currently to hack ENV['DATABASE_NAME'] in spec_helper and use code like > > > this all over the place: > > > ENV['RABITMQ_URL'] + ENV['DATABASE_NAME'] > > > Or to hardcore the test environment values in the yml files. and add > > > Rails.env.test? int he ruby code. > > > > > > As you'd imagine, this is starting to break down. > > > > > > > > > I assume the solution is to have 2 different environments, but I'm not > > > sure how to do this. > > > Where would I load in the second environment file so I don't by mistake > > > run rails console in the test environment or vice versa and blow away my > > > environment. > > > > > > > > > > > > How are other people handling the 2 different environments? > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any insight, > > > Keenan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Heroku" group. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:heroku%[email protected]) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku Community" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] > > (mailto:heroku%[email protected]). > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
