why not just split it up with an OTP, that you store in the code (or a file), then the other half in the environmental variable. combine in code (or include the

why not just split it up with an OTP, that you store in the code (or a file), then the other half in the environmental variable. combine in code (or include the file). seems like that would work. (you need both parts.) I think this article is a response to people's practice of keeping API keys as an environmental variable so as to keep them off of the filesystem (or at least what git sees and checks in) so that they don't accidentally publish them, as happened in that article article where some gem he was using to respect .gitignore didn't work for some reason. would this work as a solution?