How to load environment variables in the Rails console?

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I think this is a little, easy question!

I'm using .env file to keep all my environment variables, and i'm using foreman.

Unfortunately, these environment variables are not being loaded when running rails console rails c so, i'm now loading them manually after running the console, which is not the best way.

I'd like to know if there any better way for that.

score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '13 at 21:43

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About a year ago, the "run" command was added to foreman

ref: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman/pull/121

You can use it as follow:

foreman run rails console

or

foreman run rake db:migrate

answered Jun 10 '13 at 21:43

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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rails does not know about the environmental variables specified in .env file as it is specific to foreman. You need to set the environment explicitly before invoking rails console. Have a look at this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Mar 14 '13 at 07:19

Salil

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '18 at 10:39

I personnaly use dotenv in development and testing environements. With this approach, you don't have to prefix your commands, just call the initializer in your config/application.rb :

Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)

Dotenv::Railtie.load

HOSTNAME = ENV['HOSTNAME']

How to load environment variables in the Rails console?

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