[Feature] secrets.yml/credentials.yml.enc automatically in .gitignore

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Jennifer Parsons

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Apr 19, 2018, 5:59:49 AM4/19/18

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Hi all,

I'm new so please forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I noticed that `rails new` generates a .gitignore, but secrets.yml is not automatically added to it. I found this confusing and fortunately didn't add anything sensitive before I pushed my code up to git, but easily could have done so as a newcomer.

I see that credentials.yml.enc is coming in 5.2 and don't know if that changes the situation or not, but if not, it's something I propose as a change.

Would be interested to hear thoughts on why this isn't done be default already.

Thanks!

Kasper Timm Hansen

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Jul 2, 2018, 2:11:12 PM7/2/18

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Hey Jennifer,

Welcome!

That confusing aspect of secrets.yml is exactly why we added credentials. See the motivation up top here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/30067

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