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Discussion on: Ruby on Rails 6 Credentials: Quick guide

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RobCodes

Pro tip:
I like to keep my credentials scoped to their respective environment. So I will always have a credentials/ directory and then the env files. ( i.e staging, production, development, test )

This way they all stay independent.

you can start this off by doing

rails credentials:edit -e development

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Yaroslav Shmarov

& here's how it can look:
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RobCodes

Yep! Looks great. I always always always have unique keys and credentials. It's more of a pain for rotation, but a better security practice.

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Yaroslav Shmarov

Good advice!