Rails credentials gone bad

05 March 2019 • Tags: rails — bug — credentials

It’d be boring if you didn’t start you day with a nice error message, no matter what I tried, even editing the credentials gave an error. Here’s the one I got today, and some quick look into ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor showed me that something was wrong with the credentials.

rescue in _decrypt': ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor::InvalidMessage

The credentials.yml.enc had been modified in the repo just slightly during a merge conflict and though they were now the same again, it didn’t play along. Maybe a newline or something?

Anyways, I went straight for a solution by resetting the repo to before the change to the credentials.yml.enc file, run rails credentials:edit to copy its contents into a temporary file, back to the terminal, reset to HEAD run rails credentials:edit again and paste in the contents from the temporary file.

Easy, right?