Rails 5.2 encrypted credentials not saving

Question

When I do bin/rails credentials:edit my editor opens a file like credentials.yml.enc.1234 with default content. After I'm done editing, I hit save, and the console reads New credentials encrypted and saved.

After I run bin/rails credentials:edit again, another temp file gets opened (credentials.yml.enc.4321) and the contents are back to default.

How can I make the credentials persist?

the problem is that it saves the changes OK, I can see them with rails credentials:show, but when re-opening the file - everything is gone — The Whiz of Oz, Jan 31 '18 at 12:00

score 28 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 02 '20 at 13:01

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If you aren't using vim, you need to add a wait flag to the editor.

e.g for atom:

EDITOR="atom --wait" rails credentials:edit

I ran into the same thing and found the answer here.

edited Oct 02 '20 at 13:01

Peter T.

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answered May 29 '18 at 22:37

caroline

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I needed `EDITOR="subl --wait" rails credentials:edit` but otherwise, thanks! – thumbtackthief Jul 10 '18 at 20:58
Tried EDITOR="code --wait" rails credentials:edit since I use VSC - works like a charm! Thanks! – evgeny Jul 30 '21 at 16:32

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 24 '19 at 11:47

I also had this problem with using atom as editor. I have tried:

EDITOR="atom --wait" rails credentials:edit

and

EDITOR="atom -w" rails credentials:edit

but no results. Finally, I used nano (ubuntu):

EDITOR="nano" rails credentials:edit

For me, this works fine. Maybe, it will be helpful for someone, as an alternative.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '18 at 20:17

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There is an issue related to this: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/31286

It's been fixed already in 5.2.0.rc1

answered Feb 20 '18 at 20:17

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 10 '18 at 10:23

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I had this problem in rails 5.2.0 using textmate as the editor. It turns out the credentials file must be closed after save in order for the changes to persist.

answered May 10 '18 at 10:23

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 22 '20 at 10:36

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You can use the following for opening the credentials file in sublime.

EDITOR="subl --wait" bin/rails credentials:edit

Make sure you close the credentials file in sublime after making the changes. Also restart your server to view the changes.

answered Aug 22 '20 at 10:36

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 06 '23 at 03:39

I have struggled a bit with this one due to the fact that I was not capitalizing EDITOR. The commmand

editor="vim" rails credentials:edit

directly saves the credentials without opportunity to edit. The guidance tells you to add the --wait flag. To me, it was not about the --wait flag but about the capitalization. This was working:

EDITOR="vim" rails credentials:edit

(no --wait flat but capitalized EDITOR)

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 20 '23 at 00:33

I had some trouble myself, eventually got it all working with TextEdit on OS X.

EDITOR="open -a TextEdit --wait" rails credentials:edit

That opens the editing but after saving and closing the file, I still didn't get the changes persisted. I needed to also quit TextEdit.

So if you want to use TextEdit to edit credentials on OS X Ventura you can do it with the above command, then save the file, then quit TextEdit.

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