How do I have different envirenment variable values in Rails? - ruby-on-rails

Question

This is how I run rails console command:
COMPANY=b2b RAILS_ENV=development DEPLOY_ENV=localhost rails console
Instead I want to run only rails console command by setting these variables internally. How do I do that?
I saw some answers and made the config/company.yml file:
development:
COMPANY: b2b
DEPLOY_ENV: localhost
production:
COMPANY: b2c
DEPLOY_ENV: xyz.com
And I wrote the following config/initializers/company.rb file:
COMPANY_CONFIG = YAML.load_file("#{::Rails.root}/config/company.yml")[::Rails.env]
How do I access these variables in some helper/controller? I didn't understand how to do that? How do I set these ENV variables after running only rails console or rails server without passing the extra environment variable shown above?

Answer 1

You can't set environment variables in yaml file this difference things. Use dotenv gem for manage environment variables.
Read first Environment Variables
But have dirty hack. You can create ENV variable when rails loaded
add this code to before_configuration in config/application.rb:
config.before_configuration do
env_file = File.join(Rails.root, 'config', 'company.yml') # Find yml file
YAML.load(File.open(env_file)).each do |key, value| # Open file
ENV[key.to_s] = value # Set value to ENV
end if File.exists?(env_file) # If file exists
end
And now you can access to env variables from yml file anywhere in app.
I do not test this but i think this work.
This work.
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Answer 2

You can create these settings variables in the config/initializers/application.rb file:
company_settings_path = Rails.root.join('config', 'company.yml')
COMPANY_CONFIG = { development: { company: :default, deploy_env: :none_yet } }
COMPANY_CONFIG = YAML::load(File.open(company_settings_path)) if File.exists?(company_settings_path)
COMPANY_CONFIG = COMPANY_CONFIG.with_indifferent_access
And then access them like this:
# controller
def show
if COMPANY_CONFIG[:company] == 'b2c'
# your logic
else
# other logic
end
end
You can acces the constant COMPANY_CONFIG everywhere in your app (models, controllers, views, helpers) the same way I used below.