Question about Dotenv.load
coding-bunny opened this issue · comments
If I use Dotenv.load in a plain Ruby app, will it also load automatically other files if I have them defined and the RAILS_ENV variable set? Or do I need to manually load them?
Short answer: you have to manually load them.
Long answer:
If you want the rails behaviour, you would have to do require 'dotenv/rails' which would not work or just raise an exception unless you're using rails. The reason for this is that dotenv hooks itself into the rails plugin pipeline.
Okay, then I did it right!
We copied the logic of the rails loader and just load them ourselves in the correct order.
Thanks for the clarification.