I'm receiving a Missingsecret_key_basefor 'production' environment, set this value in config/secrets.yml error when checking localhost. This doesn't make sense, since I should be in development.
I logged Rails.env during the server start, and it is showing development.
From there I tried some database stuff:
rails dbconsole gets me this error: psql: FATAL: role "my-server" does not exist
rails db:create gets me this:
Database 'my-server_development' already exists
Database 'my-server_test' already exists
rails db:create, which gave me the most indicative error:ActiveRecord::EnvironmentMismatchError: You are attempting to modify a database that was last run in
developmentenvironment. You are running inproductionenvironment. If you are sure you want to continue, first set the environment using:bin/rails db:environment:set RAILS_ENV=production
In conclusion, some mystery config in my environment seems to be set to production. This error is suggesting that I try to set my rails env to production to match it, but what I want is to change that mystery something to development.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Okay figured it out. I had a typo in one of my initializers and was checking my Rails env like so:
if Rails.env = "production"
# blahblah do something
This of course was setting Rails.env to "production". I messing around with Pry in the Rails startup process, and I figured out that Rails.env was returning "development" at one point, and "production" later on.
From there, a quick search found the problem. Thanks to everyone who took the time to look at this. I'll update the title to something more indicative of the problem.