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I usually use ~/.bashrc in my development machine for storing facebook/twitter/etc api-key for the rails app and obtain it like ENV["KEY"].
Is there any good practice for storing those keys in production mode (say on VPS server)?
Ryan Bates from Railscasts did a great screencast on keeping tokens and passwords in a YAML file and out of your repo.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/85-yaml-configuration-revised
update: After reading your question, I’m not sure this is relevant since this applies more to your local development environment.