Hide db's password with multiple git repository in Rails application

Question

I have a git repository both on GitHub and on my private Amazon instance and with a unique commit I update both.

There is a way to commit the file database.yml only to my private repository and not on GitHub?

If could help, I'm using Capistrano for deployment.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '12 at 20:47

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In the past days I found no answer to this question, but then I solved my problem, so I'll say what I've done to have things working.

Since I don't have to modify the file database.yml, I solved my problem manually copying it to my Amazon instance and adding it to .gitignore.

Then, I added a task in deploy.rb to link database.yml to the current directory of deployment

# copy db config
after "deploy:update_code", :copy_db_config
desc "copy db config file"
task :copy_db_config do
  run "ln -s ~/path/where/I/copied/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
end

Hope this help.

answered Sep 12 '12 at 20:47

Marco Sero

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That's also what I have been doing: http://www.tigraine.at/2011/09/25/securely-managing-database-yml-when-deploying-with-capistrano/ – Tigraine Sep 12 '12 at 21:37
@Tigraine Great :) Unfortunately I didn't see your post in the past days.. I could have save _a lot_ of time – Marco Sero Sep 13 '12 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Another solution is provided here. If you previously define environment variables you can use them in the databases.yml file.

username: <%= ENV['POSTGRES_USERNAME'] %>
password: <%= ENV['POSTGRES_PASSWORD'] %>

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Feb 10 '14 at 12:45

Daniel Hernández

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Hide db's password with multiple git repository in Rails application

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