Rails 4.1 includes something similar to dotenv: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_1_release_notes.md https://github.com/rails/rails/bl

Rails 4.1 includes something similar to dotenv: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_1_release_notes.md https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_1... A secrets.yml which is globally accessible via Rails.application.secrets, and should be in the default .gitignore from Github for Rails projects