I know that, the comment is still talking about storing application environment values, whereas I took the original comment to talk about OS environment variables being stored implicitly somehow.
Nicd
fireproofsocks
I didn’t mean to cause any confusion. “Snapshot” seems like a good term for how values are read during release builds. Thanks for the link to say_cheez_ex.
I just put everything possible in
runtime.exs.
Me too. I wrote the dotenvy package to help make it easier to work with configuration sets at runtime.
The takeaways for me are to evaluate whether or not something NEEDS to be known at compile time. Often, a value can be supplied at runtime just fine. Supplying values at runtime can make testing easier, but there may be performance tradeoffs, so YYMV.
I wrote an article about this Dotenvy and my first dig into config:
https://fireproofsocks.medium.com/configuration-in-elixir-with-dotenvy-8b20f227fc0e
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