In Rails 4.1, you can actually use ERb in the `secrets.yml`, so something like this should works: defaults: &defaults secret_key_base: <%= ENV.fetch(

In Rails 4.1, you can actually use ERb in the `secrets.yml`, so something like this should works: defaults: &defaults secret_key_base: <%= ENV.fetch('SECRET_KEY_BASE') %> default_hostname: <%= ENV.fetch('DEFAULT_HOSTNAME') %> redis_url: <%= ENV.fetch(ENV['REDIS_PROVIDER'] || 'REDIS_URL') %> debug: <%= ENV.fetch('DEBUG') == "true" %> development: <<: *defaults production: <<: *defaults Though not as convenient as Figaro, I've been pretty happy with the setup so far.