rails 3, how use an ENV config vars in a Settings.yml file?

Question

In my settings.yml file I have several config vars, some of which reference ENV[] variables.

for example I have ENV[\'FOOVAR\'] equals WIDGET

I thought I cou

Answer 1

The above solution did not work for me. However, I found the solution on How do I use variables in a YAML file?

My .yml file contained something like:

development:
gmail_username: <%= ENV["GMAIL_USERNAME"] %>
gmail_password: <%= ENV["GMAIL_PASSWORD"] %>

The solution looks like:

template = ERB.new File.new("path/to/config.yml.erb").read
processed = YAML.load template.result(binding)

So when you introduce a scriptlet tag in .yml file, it is more of erb template. So read it as a erb template first and then load the yml as shown above.