rails ENV env, how do I setup rails env variables

create_env_values.md

answer derived from: http://railscasts.com/episodes/241-simple-omniauth-revised?view=comments

• check comment reply from Kori Roys

Open .bash_profile

vim ~/.bash_profile

Add the two ENV variables like so:

i.e. ENV['TWITTER_KEY'] && ENV['TWITTER_SECRET']

export TWITTER_KEY=your_twitter_key
export TWITTER_SECRET=your_twitter_secret

Save and close the file

:wq

Either quit your terminal session & restart or reload it with:

source ~/.bash_profile

This is definitely a "quick and dirty" method for understanding how to get ENV working. This is pretty hard (for me) to find this answer on the web... I always happen to stumble upon an answer in comments (just like this one).