How to access a variable defined in secret.yml and required in other Ruby script

Question

The secrets.yml file contains:

should_preferred_browser_driver: 0

In another script of the project called "rails_helper.rb", I want to access that variable.

  if should_preferred_browser_driver
    return Capybara.javascript_driver = :selenium_chrome
  else
    return Capybara.javascript_driver = :selenium_chrome_headless
  end

It displays an error:

Can not find 'should_preferred_browser_driver'

What is the way to access the variable which is defined in secrets.yml in rails_helper.rb?

Answer 1

Assuming you are using Rails, you should be able to access should_preferred_browser_driver variable by:

Rails.application.secrets.should_preferred_browser_driver

However, maybe a better approach is to handle with config within your ENV variables instead of the secrets. Figaro or dotenv gems are common in many projects.

# config/application.yml -- Figaro example
  SHOULD_PREFERRED_BROWSER_DRIVER: 0

# specs/rails_helper.rb
  if Integer(ENV.fetch("SHOULD_PREFERRED_BROWSER_DRIVER") { 0 }) 
    ...
  else
    ...
  end