Heroku Config Secret Key Base Error

Question

Just pushed my first app to Heroku using Git and straight away got an Interanl Server Error.

You must set config.secret_key_base in your app\'s config.

Answer 1

Its best to use an ENV variable for this..

This way you can invalidate all the cookies quickly if needed, have a separate secret per environment and no need to deal with the file in a special way

heroku config:set SECRET_TOKEN=ertbs45tnsb3aw5bsxdrt54...

if you duplicated the app or have another app setup in heroku, each app will have its own secret_token. on your localmachine just setup the same variable