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Goles
Goles

Reputation: 11799

Load environment variables into the .railsrc file?

I'm trying to load an environment variable in my .railsrc file,

I have defined my RAIL_UTILS_HOME env var in my .bash_profile like 

export RAIL_UTILS_HOME='/Path/to/Rails/utils'

This is what I'm trying to do in .railsrc to load a default rails template

-T -m $RAIL_UTILS_HOME/template.irb

However my $RAIL_UTILS_HOME var is not being expanded,

Any idea of how to do this correctly ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1200

Answers (1)

phoet
phoet

Reputation: 18845

you should be able to access environment variables via ENV["RAIL_UTILS_HOME"] regardles of where you do it, so it must also work in a .railsrc file.

since there is no explicit pattern for a .railsrc file, i assume that you have something like this in your .irbrc file:

railsrc_path = File.expand_path('~/.railsrc')
if ( ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || defined? Rails ) && File.exist?( railsrc_path )
  begin
    load railsrc_path
  rescue Exception
    warn "Could not load: #{ railsrc_path }" # because of $!.message
  end
end

this will load ~/.railsrc file when you start up your rails console.

Upvotes: 1

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