I've created a small gem called multa_arcana (latin for "Many Secrets") which allows one to store all Rails secrets in one file, which should not be checked into revision control, but other files then can be. Source is on https://github.com/skandragon/multa_arcana
Usage: add to Gemfile: gem 'multa_arcana' Create a file to hold the secrets: config/secrets.yml While the filename can be changed, it is somewhat hard to do so without modifying a file that is loaded fairly early, like application.rb. I just use the default. Currently to change this, one must pass in a file to load on the first call to retrieve a secret. API suggestions welcome. Place in this file the various secrets your rails app needs to keep secret: db_username: john db_password: my-super-secret-db-password secret_token: lkasjdlkqjlkas...la9u9203udkd redis: redis://user:password-for-redis@host devise_pepper: 239ru2ij3jf9u02dhis...92930d02hdhdlka3 Use it wherever you need to: config/database.yml: production: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: thing_production pool: 5 host: 127.0.0.1 username: <% MultaArcana::secret_for(:db_username) %> password: <% MultaArcana::secret_for(:db_password) %> config/initializers/secret_token.rb: Thing::Application.config.secret_token = MultaArcana::secret_for(:secret_token) -- (Ruby, Rails, Random) blog: http://blog.flame.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
