Storing environment variables and secrets in plaintext is a bad idea. But with Rails credentials, you can encrypt and store your secrets without exposing them- all it takes is a master key to access them. In this episode, I walk through setting up Rails credentials for our application.
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My name is David W Parker and I’m creating and publishing videos on ProgrammingTIL to help teach anyone and everyone who wants to code. I’m a huge fan of Ruby on Rails, Svelte, TailwindCSS, and WebGL. I’ve used React a lot in the past, as well as some Vue and AngularJS. I’ve done some professional Python and Django. I like to create real applications and my tutorials will walk you through how to build something real from beginning-to-end.

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