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Asked: 2026-06-15T07:07:21+00:00

I am building my first ruby gem for a service which requires the use

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I am building my first ruby gem for a service which requires the use of an API key from the user,
so I would like to know what should I do to let the user give his own API key to the gem when he installs it?

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    Let users of your gem put the API key in config/yourgem_config.yml

    # yourgem_config.yml
api_key: 1233456

    From your gem, load this YAML file, and use the api_key that is specified.

    Optionally fall back so some other sort of API access, when the config file can not be found, or provide a error message.

    Optionally let the user configure the path to the config file.

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