Dotenv is a application to load your dotenv files from current working directory into environment and provide environment variables to other programs.
The software was designed to help load environment variables in Rails applications, but is not limited to Rails.
Add environment variables in the .env files of your project
touch .env
touch .env.test
touch .env.development
touch .env.preview
touch .env.staging
touch .env.production
touch .env.local
touch .env.test.local
touch .env.development.local
touch .env.preview.local
touch .env.staging.local
touch .env.production.local
Run your software
dotenv env
dotenv test bundle exec rspec
dotenv bundle exec rails s
dotenv exec env
dotenv -f my_custom_env_file exec env
dotenv -f my_custom_env_file env
- Ruby (Tested on 2.5.1)
The setup is as simple as downloading the binary
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrzejtrzaska/dotenv/master/dotenv
chmod +x dotenv
./dotenv
Ideally you should add dotenv to your PATH environment variable or move it to some location in PATH. That will make using the program a lot easier.
You can also create some aliases to avoid typing dotenv every time.
alias be='dotenv bundle exec'
alias dot=dotenv
Dotenv uses RAILS_ENV or ENV environment variable to load correct environment file.
For example for RAILS_ENV=development or ENV=development it will load in order:
.env.env.development.env.local.env.development.local
Default environment is development.
Unlike normal dotenv, it is possible to override already set environment variables.
It is possible to comment out some environment variables in dotfiles. To comment out a variable, use the # character:
# NODE_ENV=development
To provide copy paste support from shell scripts, export keywords will be ignored, when reading dotenv files.
With that said, both versions of following environment variable definition will work just fine:
-
Dotenv syntax
NODE_ENV=development -
Shell export syntax
export NODE_ENV=development
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