Rails controller contents into separate configuration file

Question

Does anybody know a good way to separate out a controller item into a separate file? I have the following in of my controller.

def admin?
    session[:password] == "password"
end

But I'd like to separate the "password" into a separate file so I can ignore it from a public git repo?

Is there an easy way to do this? Without storing this in a database?

Answer 1

you can try to use ENV variables. first set the environment variable to a value.

export MYAPPPASSWORD=1234

then use this in an initializer

# config/initializers/my_app_password.rb
ENV['MYAPPPASSWORD'] = `printf "%s" $MYAPPPASSWORD`

then you can just call ENV['MYAPPPASSWORD']