Hello,

I was using the new feature secrets.yml and I have had one thought that 
might help improve usage.

Many config files in Rails have separate sections for each environment. 
However, not all environments use the same settings, meaning not just 
different values but sometimes also different keys. Usually production has 
a lot more settings than other environments.

For instance: (mongoid.yml)


development:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_development
      hosts:
        - localhost:27017
production:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_production
      hosts:
        - <%= Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['host'] %>
      username: <%= Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['user'] %>
      password: <%= Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['pwd'] %>
    replica_set:
      hosts: <%= Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['replicas'] %>


The code example above will not work as in development env, these values 
are not set. So in order to avoid any errors you would have to:


development:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_development
      hosts:
        - localhost:27017
production:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_production
      hosts:
        - <%= Rails.env.production? && 
Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['host'] %>
      username: <%= Rails.env.production? && 
Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['user'] %>
      password: <%= Rails.env.production? && 
Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['pwd'] %>
    replica_set:
      hosts: <%= Rails.env.production? && 
Rails.application.secrets[:mongo]['replicas'] %>


Needless to say, secrets.yml does not need to have same structure in all 
environments.

So I've written a helper to remedy this situation:


development:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_development
      hosts:
        - localhost:27017
production:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: example_production
      hosts:
        - <%= Secrets['mongo.host', 'production'] %>
      username: <%= Secrets['mongo.user', 'production'] %>
      password: <%= Secrets['mongo.pwd', 'production'] %>
    replica_set:
      hosts: <%= Secrets['mongo.replicas', 'production'] %>


With this helper, you can specify 'production' only values (or other env), 
and when in production, if they are not present, it will raise exception. 
However, if in some other environment, it will fail silently (because they 
are not needed there anyway)

You can still use all-env keys like:


Secrets['secret_key_base']


--------

Ok, so tell me what you think? Maybe I'm missing something?

Helper code:


class Secrets
  
  def self.[] path, env = Rails.env

    return if Rails.env != env

    position = Rails.application.secrets

    path.split('.').each do |key|
      position = position[key]
    end

    if position == nil
      raise
    end

    position
  rescue
    raise "*** Secrets.yml #{Rails.env}/#{path} does not exist ***"
  end

end





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