Properly setup Active Storage

[ACPK]

Line #11 in config/environments/production reads:

  config.active_storage.service = :local

With the Heroku setup, shouldn't there be an ENV variable here so users can set it to a third-party service (ex: AWS)?

[delphaber]

You are right. :local would not work on Heroku.

I think it would be a good idea to use an ENV variable even if the app is not set up on heroku.

# in .env
ACTIVE_STORAGE_SERVICE='local'

# in config/environments/production.rb
config.active_storage.service = ENV.fetch('ACTIVE_STORAGE_SERVICE', :local).to_sym

[stevepolitodesign]

The latest release made an effort to rely on as much as rails new as possible, and to push any infrastructure decisions to the consumer, since we no longer default to hosting on Heroku.

That being said, I don't think there would ever be a case where we'd want to store files locally in production.