figaro: Figaro doesn't work with Rails 4.1 in test environment

I’m using Rails 4.1 and, since I prefer Figaro to the new secrets.yml, I installed it and put the following in config/application.rb:

# ...

module MyApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # ...

    config.time_zone = ENV['TIME_ZONE']
    config.i18n.default_locale = ENV['DEFAULT_LOCALE']

    # ...
  end
end

I also have other similar settings in my initializers, but for some reason my application doesn’t see any of the environment variables in the test environment.

Is this a known issue? Do you have a workaround?

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Created 10 years ago
Comments: 18 (8 by maintainers)

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Just an FYI that the recommendation to restart spring solved this issue for me. Thanks @odigity!

jhubert on Oct 1, 2015

First thing to try is removing Spring from your Gemfile, running bundle, and killing all Spring processes. I lost a week to unreliable env var behavior until I realized Spring was the culprit.

I still can’t believe Rails is including it by default. Worst decision ever.

odigity on Apr 16, 2014

Here you go.

EDIT: Oh, wait. I’ve just noticed that I put Figaro in the development group. I’m such an idiot.

Indeed, Figaro 0.7.0 works fine with Rails 4.1. I’m so sorry for wasting your time. I had never put Figaro in a group so I didn’t even bother to look in my Gemfile.

aldesantis on Apr 18, 2014

Thank you. This is obviously buggy behavior, but there are a few things going on here:

Figaro 0.7 isn’t Rails 4.1 ready. Figaro 1.0 is forthcoming and adds full support for Rails 4.1.
Figaro can’t hook into Rails initialization early enough to be loaded in application.rb unless you manually Figaro.load first.

Does it work if you use Figaro master?

laserlemon on Apr 16, 2014