Question

We have multiple developers working on our current app. The app uses data in the cloud. The service we use has an app_id and an app_key. We have a app_id, app_key pair on this remote cloud per environment (prod, dev, test). The issue is, when each dev needs to work on his/her own feature we don’t want to share the same remote app (using the app_id, app_key pair). So, each dev needs their own pair on this remote service. The keys are stored in a yaml file:

development:
  id: 4321
  key: 321

test:
  id: 12345
  key: 123

production:
  id: <%= ENV['MASTER_ID'] %>
  key: <%= ENV['MASTER_KEY'] %>

How do I set it up so that when each developer starts working on a feature he/she will already have their own keys in THEIR dev environment and they won’t need to copy/paste it back into this config file every time?

(we use git if that helps)

Answer 1

Each developer should have a app_keys.yml in his local development drive, and then you just add it to .gitignore file so it won’t be tracked by git.