AWS OpsWorks Environment variables not working

Question

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit Rails Application and I am unable to access my App environment variables.

In OpsWorks App panel, I set my environment variables,

Answer 1

I (with some help from Bruno at the AWS PopUp Loft in NYC) added some custom Chef code inside the after_restart.rb deploy hook, simply add the folder "deploy" to your apps root directory and inside add "after_restart.eb." In it ....

Chef::Log.info("Running deploy/after_restart.rb")

contents = []

node[:deploy].each do |application, deploy|
  deploy[:environment_variables].each do |key, value|
    contents << "export #{key}=\"'#{value}'\""
  end
end


Chef::Log.info("Adding the environment variables to /etc/profile.d/startup_env_config.sh")

bash "create_startup_env_config.sh" do
  user "root"
  cwd  "/etc/profile.d"
  code <<-EOH
    echo \''#{contents.join(" ")}\'' > startup_env_config.sh
    source startup_env_config.sh
    cd #{release_path}

    EOH
  end

And that's it. If you update the environment variables inside the OpsWorks panel remember to restart your instances.