Rails 3 / Setting Custom Environment Variables

Question

I am trying to create a rails application that assigns one value to a variable when the environment is the development environment, and another value to that same variable w

Answer 1

I use the Yettings gem in Rails 3.2, which allows me to store my application variables in config/yettings.yml like so:

defaults: &defaults
  api_key: asdf12345lkj
  some_number: 999
  an_erb_yetting: <%= "erb stuff works" %>
  some_array:
    - element1
    - element2

development:
  <<: *defaults
  api_key: api key for dev

test:
  <<: *defaults

production:
  <<: *defaults

And access them like this:

#/your_rails_app/config/yetting.yml in production
Yetting.some_number #=> 999
Yetting.api_key #=> "asdf12345lkj"