Question

In my app I have some code that changes when running locally versus in development on the remote server, such as app_domain in application.yml, etc. Besides having to manually change them each time I run locally versus deploy to remote machine, is there a better way of managing this?

Answer 1

EDIT – for yml

It depends a bit on how you are loading the application.yml but generally when you load yml files ruby parses it all into a hash for you. Thus you can set something up like the database.yml and structure all the yml under your different environments:

development:
    domain: localhost

production:
    domain: mydomain.com

test:
    domain: foo

and then when you load your yml file you want to grab the settings for the specific environment you are in, like this:

MY_CONFIGS = YAML.load_file("[path to my yaml file]/application.yml")[RAILS_ENV]