dotenv VS stimulus-rails

This is the second part of my Test Driving a Rails API series. In Part 1 we set up our development environment, generated a Rails API-only application, installed dotenv to easily store configuration values in the environment, and installed and configured PostgreSQL version 16 as our database.

Storing environment variables for a Rails app can be problematic. The dotenv gem will automatically, when Rails boots, load environment variables from .env files into the Rails ENV. This is a great way to store private information that varies per developer or deployment environment, such as your development database configuration. Rails Encrypted Credentials is a great way to store private information, like API keys, etc, but I wouldn’t use it for storing my local development environment’s database information. The Encrypted Credentials file is checked into the git repository and would, therefore, be shared by all developers on the project. dotenv allows each developer or deployment environment to store their own information in .env files that are ignored by git.

dotenv

Install the dotenv gem.

dotenv-rails

Yeah, now that I think of it, it does require a gem. I have used this in most projects https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus-rails I think you need to understand how rails works because it clearly says I’m right here buddy

So I've been following the setup for https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus-rails with using the importmap, tried to get @hotwired/stimulus-loading pinned and its stating that it no longer exists...

Thanks! Now I learn 'named export' keyword... Could your show the code of named export? I searched but I don't find the one. I thinks this issue is what you say but I don't get it.

- [stimulus-rails](https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus-rails)

stimulus-rails

The tricky part of recreating the disable behavior is getting the interface to be as clean as the original. I actually opened a PR regarding a disable controller earlier this year, and the man himself said as much about the interface (I embarrassingly left the PR stale after getting swept up in my last semester of college).

The Stimulus Handbook

Have you checked out the stimulus-rails gem? It sounds like it will let you stop manually registering controllers, and use the normal ES6 import syntax for inheritance:

Run `hotwire:install Hotwire also has the following resources available: Hotwired Turbo Rails Hotwired Stimulus-rails

There's an open issue about it: https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus-rails/issues/15