remotenv

Remotenv

Securely store environment variables away from your application

WIP: This gem is currently under active development. Until 1.0 version backwards-incompatible changes may be introduced with each 0.x minor version.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'remotenv'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

When Remotenv is loaded it automatically uses Dotenv in the background to preload and other configuration mechanisms you may have to make transitioning seamless.

Rails

Remotenv automatically pre-loads itself during before_configuration phase so no configuration is required.

Sinatra

Use the plain ruby method as early as possible, before any ENV variables are accessed. Usually at the top of app.rb.

Plain ruby

Run the following code before you need access to the environment variables

Remotenv.load

Todo

Below are the main features that will ideally be implemented before v1.0. Contributions welcome.

• Local caching to protect against network errors
• Ordered override behaviour for more fine grained control
• Require/Desire to aid developer knowledge of configurations
• Add Remotenv.configure {} functionality
• Encrypted variables

Changelog

https://github.com/signisto/remotenv-ruby/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/signisto/remotenv-ruby.