How to get the value of env file in rails app?

Question

I have installed a rails app using the rails composer. I selected .env with foreman. In my .env file I have:

OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY=key

and I am trying to get its value.

But, when I ran ENV["OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY"] I got nil. What am I doing wrong?

Have you restart your server after adding variable in .env file? — Salil, Oct 28 '15 at 05:10
@Salil, yes and still no luck. In rails console , i ran ENV["OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY"] and it outpus nil — Raaz, Oct 28 '15 at 05:11
@user2322409, yes I have. Is it because I used rails composer? — Raaz, Oct 28 '15 at 05:35
@RajShakya what do you mean you "ran" `ENV["OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY"]`? Give us the location and code that you used to check it. — neanderslob, Oct 28 '15 at 06:06
in my secrets.yml file , i have this code `omniauth_provider_key: <%= ENV["OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY"] %>` but when I ran my app I got errors because the key was not found. So I tried ENV["OMNIAUTH_PROVIDER_KEY"].inspect in the view but it showed me nil and again I ran it in rails console and again got nil. I am unable to get the value from .env file. @neanderslob — Raaz, Oct 28 '15 at 06:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '15 at 08:50

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Add the dotenv gem to your gemfile:

answered Oct 28 '15 at 08:50

aguynamedloren

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