I am continuing with the development in ruby on rails of a project from another programmer, the project was hosted in aws, the project references a key called secret_key_base. The problem is that that key is not in the project and I am working on another aws account so that key was lost. Is there any way to generate it again?

CodePudding user response：

If it is referenced as ENV variable then it must in the aws config. The other option is it may in config/credentials.yml.enc file or similar to this. For more information you can check this guide. If it is lost completely then you can create a new random string with running rake secret. But please be aware that if previous key for example used to encrypt some data in database then you won't be able to decrypt them.