dotenv is designed to load configuration variables into ENV in development. It does not concern itself with production environments because there are typically better ways to manage configuration in those environments—such as /etc/environment managed by Puppet or Chef, heroku config, etc.

However, some find dotenv to be a convenient way to configure applications in staging and production environments. This gem makes it easier to do that by adding support for:

• multiple environments
• Capistrano

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dotenv-deployment'

And then execute:

$ bundle

By default .env will be loaded when dotenv-deployment is required. It will not override existing environment variables.

If you're using Rails or ENV['RACK_ENV'] is set, an environment-specific file (like .env.production) will be loaded and override any existing variables. In a Rails project, config/*.env and config/*.env.#{environment} will also be loaded.

Add the gem to your config/deploy.rb file:

require "dotenv/deployment/capistrano"

NOTE: If you are upgrading from previous versions of dotenv, you will need to change your require from "dotenv/capistrano" to "dotenv/deployment/capistrano".

It will symlink the .env located in /path/to/shared in the new release.

Just add .env to the list of linked files, for example:

set :linked_files, %w{config/database.yml .env}

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv-deployment/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request