Hiding my sensitive information (e.g. password) from github

Question

I just set up Devise (rails authentication plugin) to send a confirmation email upon sign up. This involved my putting the following into my environment.rb file:

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Answer 1

The standard is to put your configuration settings in one YAML file which isn't included in your repo.

Then you simply get the data from it.

Check Railscast "#85 YAML Configuration File" to see it in action.