Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Stefan Wintermeyer 2018

Stefan WintermeyerLearn Rails 5.2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_16

16. Credentials

Stefan Wintermeyer¹ 

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Bochum, Germany

 

Deploying secret API keys or other secret configuration credentials to a production environment can become quite a hassle. You normally don’t want to commit them unencrypted to your repository, but you also want to share them with other developers. Rails 5.1 introduced the concept of secrets, but Rails 5.2 deprecated them and introduced the concept of credentials.

You still have to store one central encryption key on your server and on all development systems, but that’s it. All other secrets/credentials are encrypted with that key and can be stored safely in your code repository.

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