ruby-on-railsherokufigaro-ruby

Can I use the figaro gem to set env variables in my local environment?

I use the Figaro gem to set env variables for my apps hosted on Heroku.

To set the required env variables on production I use this:

$ figaro heroku:set -e production

Can I do something similar for my local environment? Right now I'm manually calling export foo=bar for each variable.

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Yes. Make sure you have it installed in your Gemfile:

    gem 'figaro'
bundle install

    Then run:

    figaro:install

    And it will generate an application.yml file.

    Make sure you use add your environment variables under the respective environments: 

    development:
  my_env_var: "stuff"
test:
  my_env_var: "stuff"