Rails 4 Initializer Not Loading

Question

I am trying to put my emailer password in a .yml file.

Under config/initializers I have a file emailers_config.rb

require 'yaml'
EMAIL_CONFIG = YAML.load(File.read(Rails.root + "config/mailer_config.yml"))

and in my config/mailer_config.yml I have:

#production password
smtp_password_pro: foo
#devevopment env password
smtp_password_dev: bar

Now it seems My initializes is not running, because I get this uninitialized constant EMAIL_CONFIG (NameError)

Now Rails is supposed to laod everything under the initializers folder, so loading the file is not an issue.

What is wrong here?

Answer 1

If you are having trouble accessing a constant in your YAML file, try shutting down your local server with control + c, then run:

$ spring stop

Boot up your server or console again:

$ rails [server | console]

And you might have access to that constant.