figaro-ruby

I have a rails 4.1 app and I'm trying to organize my env variables. As of right now I have a secrets.yml file in my config/ folder. I also installed the figaro gem. My goal was to have all my env variables in the application.yml (not checked into git) file and then use the secrets.yml (checked into git) file to map the variables from appliation.yml to the application. When I print the files using Rails.application.secrets It just shows hashes that look like this: :salesforce_username=>"ENV['SALESFORCE_USERNAME']" None of my external services are working with this env variables setup. When I

I m trying to use Figaro gem with Sinatra. I have installed Figaro and it created the following file/ folder... /config/application.yml On this file I have added some environment variables... ENV['GMAIL_USERNAME'] ENV['GMAIL_PASSWORD'] Then on my my "app.rb" file I am trying to include the yml file like... require 'config/application.yml' How can I have access to my "ENV['BIG_SECRET']" in my app.rb file? Mail.defaults do delivery_method :smtp, { :address => 'smtp.gmail.com', :port => '587', :domain => 'mydomain.com', :user_name => ENV['GMAIL_USERNAME'], :password => ENV['GMAIL_PASSWORD'],