Installing New Relic without adding license key to repo
I use the Figaro gem to handle secret keys with ENV environment variables, similar to you. For New Relic, I have:
config/application.yml (.gitignored and not pushed to source control)
# ...NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: {{MY_KEY}}which is then referenced in config/newrelic.yml:
# ...license_key: <%= ENV['NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY'] %>A file called config/application.example.yml gets pushed up to the source code repo with instructions to put your own license key in:
config/application.example.yml
# ...NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: # put your license key hereAlso see this StackOverflow Q&A for more details:
What should be removed from public source control in Ruby on Rails?
I got a useful answer on IRC. newrelic.yml is erb interpolated. Meaning I can just add <%= ENV["NEWRELIC"] %> to the yml file.
Yes to the above answers. also, If you're on Heroku. After installing the NewRelic Addon, you can download newrelic.yml file and change license_key: to:
license_key: <%= ENV['NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY']%>
This will use the NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY env variable set by the NewRelic addon