Ruby/Rails gem to load Spore environment variables. See the Spore Website for more information.

Add this line to the top of your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spore-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Spore is initialized in your Rails app during the before_configuration callback, which is fired when the Application constant is defined in config/application.rb with class Application < Rails::Application. If you need it to be initialized sooner, you can manually call Spore::Railtie.load.

# config/application.rb
Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)

Spore::Railtie.load

HOSTNAME = ENV['HOSTNAME']

If you use gems that require environment variables to be set before they are loaded, then list spore-rails in the Gemfile before those other gems and require spore/rails-now.

gem 'spore-rails', :require => 'spore/rails-now'
gem 'gem-that-requires-env-variables'

Install the gem:

$ gem install spore

As early as possible in your application bootstrap process, load Spore:

require 'spore'
Spore.load

To ensure Spore is loaded in rake, load the tasks:

require 'spore/tasks'

task :mytask => :spore do
    # things that require environment variables
end

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

The spore-rails gem was based on dotenv by Brandon Keepers.