Is it possible to set ENV variables for rails development environment in my code?

Question

I know that I can set my ENV variables in bash via

export admin_password = \"secret\"

But is there a way to do it in my rails source code s

Answer 1

As an aside to the solutions here, there are cleaner alternatives if you're using certain development servers.

With Heroku's Foreman, you can create per-project environment variables in a .env file:

ADMIN_PASSOWRD="secret"

With Pow, you can use a .powenv file:

export ADMIN_PASSOWRD="secret"