My day job is designing and developing websites, but in my off time, I like to build all kinds of things, including Ruby gems, iPhone apps, and Alexa skills.
Something that didn’t make sense to me in the beginning was the whole concept of environment variables. I really didn’t understand what they’re purpose was, or how I was supposed to use them. And because of that I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just store credentials in my code.
It seems so obvious now, but for the longest time I just couldn’t wrap my head around them.
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Something that didn’t make sense to me in the beginning was the whole concept of environment variables. I really didn’t understand what they’re purpose was, or how I was supposed to use them. And because of that I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just store credentials in my code.
It seems so obvious now, but for the longest time I just couldn’t wrap my head around them.