Create Environment Specific Rails Credentials

If you've worked with the rails encrypted credentials system before, you're probably familiar with the command to edit them

bin/rails credentials:edit

This will create(if it doesn't exist config/credentials.yml.enc by way of the RAILS_MASTER_KEY). If you only have this credentials file, the items in this file will be available to all environments of your application.

But you can also create/edit environment specific credentials by specifying an environment. This will similarly create 2 files - config/development.key and config/development.yml.enc.

bin/rails credentials:edit --environment development

Credentials specified in this file will only be available in the development environment

https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#custom-credentials