Rails 6 accessing credentials does not work?

Question

I am trying to set up a Stripe payment form for a Rails 6 project, and I am not able to access my stripe secret keys. I am getting an error NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass) What am I doing wrong?

Here's what I did

1. Edit my credentials.yml.enc - Type this in the console EDITOR="code --wait" bin/rails credentials:edit

2. Added my secret keys to credentials.yml.enc

   some_variable: secret_stuff
   development: 
     stripe:
       stripe_public_key: fake_key
       strip_secret_key: fake_key
   

3. Closed the file and double checked it saved my code by opening up the file to verify it was saved (it was)

4. Open up rails console and typed in Rails.application.credentials.some_variable
   I expected secret_stuff but I got nil.
   Typed in Rails.application.credentials.development[:stripe][:stripe_public_key]. I expected fake_key but I got NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass)

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

I can't display a credit card form, and I just want to get this up and running so I can charge people and become a millionaire.

Answer 1

You probably accessing credentials environment wrong, this should work:

Rails.application.credentials[Rails.env.to_sym][:stripe][:stripe_public_key]

credentials.development => credentials[Rails.env.to_sym] (so you are accessing current environment varbiales)