Setting up and using environment variables in IntelliJ Idea

Question

I set up an environment variable (Under IDE Settings -> Path Variables)

 APP_HOME = /path/to/app_home   

One of my tests is failing however with

 System.out.println("APP HOME: " + APP_HOME);  

With

 APP HOME: null/  

It does not look like that env variable is being read. What am i missing?

Answer 1

Path Variables dialog has nothing to do with the environment variables.

Environment variables can be specified in your OS or customized in the Run configuration:

Answer 2

If the above answer + restarting the IDE didn't do, try restarting "Jetbrains Toolbox" if you use it, this did it for me