Rails multi environment credentials
Background Generally in applications there are various secrets and credentials, that we need to make use of like API keys, secrets, etc. For such secrets we need the ability to conveniently and securely manage credentials. Rails 5.1 added a feature to use secrets to manage credentials. Rails 5.2 replaced secrets with credentials, since encrypted and un-encrypted secrets were making it harder to manage them. A set of files were used to manage these credentials: config/credentials.yml.enc config/master.key config/credentials.yml.enc is an encrypted file which store the credentials. As this is a encrypted file, we can safely commit it to our version control systems. config/master.key contains RAILS_MASTER_KEY which is used to decrypt the config/credentials.yml.enc . We should not commit this file to version control . Interacting with credentials As config/credentials.yml.enc is encrypted we should never directly read from or write...