When you setup an environment specific credentials file it generates you a key to use for that file, the global credentials file wont work for that environment so you will need to move any keys that had there to the new file.
Inside of that file you can set your keys to the variables you will pass in thru credentials stripe: To specify a credentials file for a specific environment you can do that with -environment if no credentials file is specified for that environment it will use the global variables, I will use global for test and development and specify production. If you would rather not specify which editor should be used every time you can set a default editor so you can do rails credentials:edit -environment development To setup a global credentials file that will be used for all environments you have to choose the IDE text editor you are using and then tell rails to edit the credentials file which will create one for you.
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For an example you can use test keys from stripe to test out your code as you set it up in, but then when you put it on production you will have to switch to the live keys. Encrypted secrets were first introduced in RailsĀ 5.1, and then in Rails 6 they added multi environment credentials so you can use separate keys for different environments. Secret variables in rails are really important to setup in apps that handle important data that you dont want anybody to have access to.