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Hubot - load environmental variables from a file

setting environmental variables for a Hubot is pretty easy on the production server. However when I want to test the bot locally, I need the env vars inside a file. I already have the file .env for env vars that heroku is using for running locally.

But I can't seem to find a way to load env vars inside the Hubot scripts from a file.

Merry Christmas :-)

Solution

  • okay it's possible with hubot-env.

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/hubot-env

    The following command will load the file from a relative path:

    hubot env load --filename=[filename].

    It previously didn't work for me because I had HUBOT_ENV_BASE_PATH set on my mac so the command searched in the wrong folder for the file.