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These are pretty much the exact steps from Paul Elliot’s blog post on the subject.

In case you found this post from google, his blog post is a better source for this sort of information than mine, so please look at his post. I’m just repeating the steps here because I keep looking it up and having it on my blog will save me a step.

Put this in config/environments/development.rb

config.before_initialize do
  dev = File.join(Rails.root, 'config', 'development.yml')
  YAML.load(File.open(dev)).each do |key, value|
    ENV[key.to_s] = value
  end if File.exists?(dev)
end

AWS_KEY: big long key
AWS_SECRET_KEY: another big long key

Add config/development.yml to your .gitignore file.

Someone mentioned a “rails_config” gem in the comments, but I haven’t used or looked into that.