How to edit rails credentials?

Rails recommends using encrypted credentials to store sensitive information like API keys, passwords, etc. The secrets are stored in config/credentials.yml.enc file and can be accessed using Rails.application.credentials.

How to edit rails credentials

$ EDITOR=vim rails credentials:edit

This will open the encrypted credentials file in the editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable.

Note: This command will create config/credentials.yml.enc file as well as config/master.key if they don’t exist.

How to edit rails credentials

$ EDITOR=vim rails credentials:edit --environment production

This will open the encrypted credentials file for the production environment (config/credentials/production.yml.enc) in the editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable.

References

• https://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#custom-credentials

Note: All the commands have been tested with rails 7.1 and the result may differ from prior versions