If you are like many (most?) of us, you have encountered Rails
Credentials/Secrets and secret_key_base and may have been
left a bit (or more) confused.
This post is an attempt to remove some of that confusion by
Aleksandr Koltunov firstsano
brianjbayer
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A comprehensive examination of Rails Secrets, Credentials, and Secret Key Base
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| rails generate devise:views | |
| gem install html2slim | |
| for file in app/views/devise/**/*.erb; do erb2slim $file ${file%erb}slim && rm $file; done |