Use dotenv In A Non-Rails Project
Up to now I've only used dotenv
in a
Rails context. It can just as easily be used in a plain old Ruby project.
Install the non-Rails version of the gem.
$ gem install dotenv
Then add the following lines wherever you want dotenv
included and loaded.
In my case, I want it pulled in as part of my RSpec setup in
spec_helper.rb
.
require 'dotenv'
Dotenv.load
Your environment variables declared in .env
are now accessible via fetches
against the ENV
object.
ENV.fetch('my_env_var')
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