I second Manuel's environment variable approach. On heroku<https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars>this is easy to set with
heroku config:add PASSWORD_FILE="/etc/passwords" For more complex deployments, you can use automation systems like Pallet or Chef to manage environment variables. On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:40:18 PM UTC-8, Alex Baranosky wrote: > > I don't like the environment variable approach because of the dependency > on global state makes deploying harder. > > I'd usually have a config file like config.clj whose contents were just a > Clojure map. When loading the application I'd pass in the location of the > config file as a parameter, and read-string the file at run-time. That > said, it can sometimes be convenient for development to have some default > config file location, so you don't always need to pass the config location > in. > > Alex > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Manuel Paccagnella < > manuel.pa...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm not sure that a password file is an optimal solution for this >> problem. Maybe the 12 factors <http://www.12factor.net/>, and in >> particular the config <http://www.12factor.net/config> one, could give >> you some ideas. >> >> Personally I think that credentials are environment-specific, not >> application-specific. So I'd place them in an external storage service >> (like a DB). Or, to make things simple, put them in a file somewhere in the >> system and load it through an environment variable (see 12 factors, III). >> >> This is as simple as writing: >> >> (load-passwords-from-file (System/getenv "PASSWORD_FILE")) >> >> Hope it helps :) >> >> Il giorno martedì 18 dicembre 2012 03:21:31 UTC+1, Marco Munizaga ha >> scritto: >> >>> I'm currently doing something like src/project/passwords.clj and git >>> ignoring that, does anyone have a better solution? maybe a way to place the >>> passwords.clj alongside project.clj in the root directory? Would this be >>> possible through leiningen profiles? >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
