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Asked: 2026-06-03T23:43:36+00:00

Is it still considered a best practice to load some configuration parameters inside environment.rb

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Is it still considered a best practice to load some configuration parameters inside environment.rb with yaml files within the /config directory? It seems like a pretty good way to do this, but if there was a better way, it’d be good to know about it. I’ve tried to find articles about loading configuration settings in Rails / YAML but most of the articles don’t go past 2009. Makes me feel like there came a better (or new standard) way to do this. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve been using this gem for that purpose recently:

    Basically, you create a /config/application.yml file that looks something like this:

    defaults: &defaults
  api:
    johns_api_co:
      api_key: my_key
      secret: shh!!!

    other_setting:
      this: "is a config setting"
      that: "and another thing"

development:
  <<: *defaults

test:
  <<: *defaults

production:
  <<: *defaults

    There are so many ways to do this, but this works well and is pretty straightforward.

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