Nov 27, 2017 In the terminal of your production server execute the next command: $ RAILSENV=production rake secret This returns a large string with letters and numbers, copy that (we will refer to that code as GENERATEDCODE). Login to your server. Apr 10, 2017 Getting 'Missing `secretkeybase` for 'production' environment' when trying to get Unicorn to work with Rails Posted April 10, 2017 9.4k views Ruby on Rails Ubuntu. Rails provides rake secret for just this purpose. The source code is here. The code simply requires SecureRandom and spits out a string. If you want to be really clever, you can pipe the string directly into your Vim buffer for the config file, with.! Check out rake -T secret inside. You can generate SECRETKEYBASE using rake secret command from project root folder. Rails Logging Variables By default chatwoot will capture info level logs in production.
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commented May 19, 2014
I have recently deployed an app and got internal server error because of missing production secret_key_base. After hours of testing, I managed to solve this problem with two methods: Method 1: I generated a new secret_key with rake secret and replaced it with <%= ENV['SECRET_KEY_BASE'] %> in secrets.yml . Deployed the app again and this time it worked. But I think that this method is wrong.Method 2: I generated a new secret_key with rake secret and added it to environments/production.rb like config.secret_key_base = 'd1f4810e662acf46a33960e3aa5bd0************************ , without changing secrets.yml (default is production: <%= ENV['SECRET_KEY_BASE'] %> ). Deployed the app again and it works fine.My questions:
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commented May 19, 2014
As the name implies, secret_key_base should be a secret. That's why we don't generate a secret for production in config/secrets.yml . You see that it's reading from an environment variable so you can easily set your secret on your production server, without changing the file:If you want / need to have your secret under version control, you should definitely stick with Method 1 . That's because Method 2 just avoids the config/secrets.yml mechanism all together.Please note that we don't use GitHub for support questions. Read our contribution guidelines and please use the rails-talk mailing list for further questions. |
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