dwyl/learn-travis

Secure Environment Variables

nelsonic opened this issue · 7 comments

nelsonic commented

http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/

gem install travis
cd my_project
travis encrypt MY_SECRET_ENV=super_secret --add env.matrix

If you see a permissions error while attempting to install the _travis_ ruby gem,
we recommend using rvm to install the latest ruby (on your user's path) first then try again:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
rvm install current && rvm use current
gem install travis

See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14182172/1148249

iteles commented

👍 A note on what environment variables are and why they are needed will also be useful to beginners as part of this update

nelsonic commented

@iteles agreed. I've added it to my personal backlog dwyl/learn-node-js-by-example#16 and will get to it shortly (in "The Book") 😉

For now, we just needed to hide the keys on Travis. 👍

rjmk commented

Though the docs suggest adding to the env.matrix, I think this will cause a different build to be run for each secure environment variable, with only one variable exported each time. --add env.global may be a better bet.

nelsonic commented

Spot on @rjmk 👍
see: https://github.com/dwyl/tudo/blob/a98286e759f9b097e84058f071cc7df5e0645fc8/.travis.yml#L4-L6
(we just forgot to update this issue body ... thanks for reminding us! How are you doing BTW?) 😃

rjmk commented

Awesome 👍

(And also awesome! Looking forward to some serious #dwyling next week!)

nelsonic commented

We are going to get up to some fun things next week! #dwyl #GetExcited! 😜