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Disha
Disha

Reputation: 796

nginx.conf - passenger_env_var not loading in rails

I defined environment variables in nginx.conf like below - 

 server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  XX.XX.XX.XX; //Masked for this question

        location ~ ^/clients/abc(/.*|$) {
                alias /home/abc/Project/public$1;
                passenger_base_uri /clients/abc;
                passenger_app_root /home/abc/Project;
                passenger_document_root /home/abc/Project/public;
                passenger_enabled on;
                passenger_env_var AWS_U disha;
        }
}

I restarted nginx but when I open rails c and type ENV['AWS_U'], it returns nil.

What possibly could I be doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 537

Answers (2)

Tsutomu
Tsutomu

Reputation: 5138

Environment variables are only set when the application gets loaded by Passenger. They are not set when the application starts by rails c command.

If you want to know the value of an environment varialbe on the running application loaded by Passenger, you can make a temporal action for debugging:

class DebugController < ApplicationController
  def foobar
    render plain: "FOOBAR = '#{ENV['FOOBAR']}'"
  end
end

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  get "/debug/foobar" => "debug#foobar"
end

Upvotes: 1

Deepsystm
Deepsystm

Reputation: 81

U need to move passenger_env_var directive to server section.

server {
   ...
   passenger_env_var VAR value;
}

Upvotes: 2

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