# Your secret key is used for verifying the integrity of signed cookies. # If you change this key, all old signed cookies will become invalid! # Make sure the secret is at least 30 characters and all random, # no regular words or you'll be exposed to dictionary attacks. # You can use `rake secret` to generate a secure secret key. Rails.application.secrets.secretkeybase; Rails 5 took the first way by default. You can change Rails.application.credentials.secretkeybase by rails credentials:edit. For all other environments, remember to set environment variable RAILSMASTERKEY to be the same content of config/master.key. The master.key is git ignored by default. This way uses the same secret key for all environments. If you want to use different keys, you need to control namespaces by yourself. About RandomKeygen Our free mobile-friendly tool offers a variety of randomly generated keys and passwords you can use to secure any application, service or device. Simply click to copy a password or press the ' Generate ' button for an entirely new set. If one created Rails 5.1 app and then updated to 5.2, `secretkeybase` defined in `config/secrets.yml` is ignored for `development` and `test` environment. A change in `secretkeybase` in turn breaks `Rails.application.keygenerator`. If one encrypt data in Rails 5.1, she cannot decrypt it in Rails 5.2 for `development` and `test` environment.
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This article is a translation from https://qiita.com/kawasaki/items/dcaf5716c3fd5e2fe69f
Digest version to set up the secret key in the production environment in Rails 5.1
$ rails secrets:setup
-> copy the long secret key in the first line and set it as an environment variable RAILS_MASTER_KEY when executing rails$ rails secret
-> you will get the longer key; copy it$ EDITOR=vim rails secrets:edit
write the following and save it from vim
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Errors in the production environment when I run 'rails server'
I've developped my application happily in the development environment. But it's high time I prepared for the production environment, and I tried
$ rails server --environment production
and got
An unhandled lowlevel error occurred. The application logs may have details.
Oh, no...
Next, I tried
Next, I tried
$ rails secrets:setup
which was introduced in Rails 5.1. But the error still remained. Going down in to the rails library, I got the point where I was wrong.
Anyway, you'll get the following output wehn you run rails secrets:setup
The encryption key 'a1e98ed29c40d7453a06bebeb815c0f3' in the first line is the most important key to protect the whole application and you must keep it secret. The key is automatically written down to config/secrets.yml.key.
Never commit it to your git repository, NEVER!
But usually you'll not commit it because the file config/secrets.yml.key is automatically added to .gitignore, so that the file is not to be committed.
Never commit it to your git repository, NEVER!
But usually you'll not commit it because the file config/secrets.yml.key is automatically added to .gitignore, so that the file is not to be committed.
For rails execution, you need either to import config/secrets.yml.key from somewhere or to set the secret key in the environment variable RAILS_MASTER_KEY.
Actually, this in only the half of the necessary settings because what you did is to make a key to lock config/secrets.yml.enc, you treasure box. You still need to store your treasure.
This file, secrets.yml.enc is an encrypted yml file using your key. It looks like as follows.
This file, secrets.yml.enc is an encrypted yml file using your key. It looks like as follows.
To edit this file (if you use vim),
$ EDITOR=vim rails secrets:edit
The file looks like as follows.
Everything is commented out and nothing is specified above. You have to specify secret_key_base beneath production which is a secret key used for Cookie encryption. It is recommended to generate the secret key by using 'rails secret'.
Then, save it in your config/secrets.yml.enc by doing
Now, you have no error regarding the secret key in Rails.
By the way, you can store any kind of secret information here including database passwords. e.g.
You can use the encrypted database password from your code by
e.g. in config/database.yml.
Rails.application.secrets.postgresql_password
e.g. in config/database.yml.
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app error: Missing `secret_key_base` for 'production' environment, set this value in `config/secrets.yml` (RuntimeError)
secret_key_base
So i was using Rails 4.1 with Unicorn v4.8.2 and when i tried to deploy my app it doesn't start properly and into the unicorn.log file i found this error message: |
'app error: Missing `secret_key_base` for 'production' environment, set this value in `config/secrets.yml` (RuntimeError)' |
After a little research i found that Rails 4.1 change the way to manage the secret_key, so if we read the secrets.yml file located at exampleRailsProject/config/secrets.yml (you need to replace 'exampleRailsProject' for your project name) you will find something like this: |
# Do not keep production secrets in the repository, |
# instead read values from the environment. |
production: |
secret_key_base: <%= ENV['SECRET_KEY_BASE'] %> |
This means that rails recommends you to use an environment variable for the secret_key_base in our production server, so in order to solve this error you will need to follow this steps to create an environment variable for linux (in my case it is Ubuntu) in our production server: |
1.- In the terminal of our production server you will execute the next command: |
$ RAILS_ENV=production rake secret |
This will give a large string with letters and numbers, this is what you need, so copy that (we will refer to that code as GENERATED_CODE). |
2.1- Now if we login as root user to our server we will need to find this file and open it: |
$ vi /etc/profile |
Then we go to the bottom of the file ('SHIFT + G' for capital G in VI) |
And we will write our environment variable with our GENERATED_CODE (Press 'i' key to write in VI), be sure to be in a new line at the end of the file: |
export SECRET_KEY_BASE=GENERATED_CODE |
Having written the code we save the changes and close the file (we push 'ESC' key and then write ':x' and 'ENTER' key for save and exit in VI) |
2.2 But if we login as normal user, lets call it example_user for this gist, we will need to find one of this other files: |
$ vi ~/.bash_profile |
$ vi ~/.bash_login |
$ vi ~/.profile |
These files are in order of importance, that means that if you have the first file, then you wouldn't need to write in the others. So if you found this 2 files in your directory '~/.bash_profile' and '~/.profile' you only will have to write in the first one '~/.bash_profile', because linux will read only this one and the other will be ignored. |
Then we go to the bottom of the file ('SHIFT + G' for capital G in VI) |
And we will write our environment variable with our GENERATED_CODE (Press 'i' key to write in VI), be sure to be in a new line at the end of the file: |
export SECRET_KEY_BASE=GENERATED_CODE |
Having written the code we save the changes and close the file (we push 'ESC' key and then write ':x' and 'ENTER' key for save and exit in VI) |
3.-We can verify that our environment variable is properly set in linux with this command: |
$ printenv | grep SECRET_KEY_BASE |
or with: |
$ echo $SECRET_KEY_BASE |
When you execute this command, if everything went ok, it will show you the GENERATED_CODE that we generated before. Finally with all the configuration done you can deploy without problems your Rails app with Unicorn or other. |
Now when you close your shell terminal and login again to the production server you will have this environment variable set and ready to use it. |
And Thats it!! i hope this mini guide help you to solve this error. |
Disclaimer: i'm not a guru of linux or rails, so if you find something wrong or any error i will be glad to correct it! |
commented Jan 7, 2015
(we push 'ESC' key and then write ':x' and 'ENTER' key for save and exit in VI) when we going this way at this place ':x' and 'ENTER' for save and exit its demand the encrepted key or not save exit |
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commented Aug 23, 2015
This is solution: At your app inside application.rb add this line: |
commented Jul 13, 2016 • edited
edited
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TY bro that fix my problem
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commented Oct 28, 2016
config.secret_key_base = '<%= ENV['SECRET_KEY_BASE'] %>' is more secure |
commented Jun 6, 2017
Add this line in config/environments/production.rb config.secret_key_base = ENV['SECRET_KEY_BASE'] |
commented Dec 29, 2017 • edited
edited
commented Sep 18, 2018
Thank you. Fixed here! |
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