Multi-line config variables in Heroku

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I've have a Rails app that loads a number of RSA certificates before a transaction is made with Paypal. On my development machine, these certificates are read from files in the file system but because Heroku (which I'm using for delpoyment) is largely read-only, I can't upload these files so I'm guessing I'll have to read the certificates from config variables (see Heroku Config Vars).

Because the certificates consist of multiple lines of data, I'm not sure how to set them as variables or even if this is possible. Does anyone know how I could do this or be able to suggest an alternative approach?

Many thanks, Eddie

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7 Answers

Or you can just go to the Settings tab of the Heroku dashboard, open Config Vars and paste it in.

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Easy peasy.

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I know this is a very manual way of doing it, but what worked for me is to paste the private key into a text editor, find and replace \n with an actual line break and paste that as the value for the env var in Heroku.

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