Project status?

[scarroll32]

I've used Figaro for years on Heroku, and am even using it at present with Capistrano. I'm not a fan of Rails encrypted secrets, and even with the Rails 6 enhancements it is not as easy to use and full-featured as Figaro!

What is the status of this project? I see there is a v2 branch but it has been quiet for a while.

Do you need some help to get this released @laserlemon ?

[scarroll32]

Looks like @laserlemon is offline ... is anyone maintaining a fork of this project?

[hlascelles]

We have a fork with a couple of changes (looks like 255 other people do too!). It may mean someone (...) will have to make a statement of intent to hard fork, rename and release as a new gem if we can't get hold him. I see he actually works at Github. I will try contacting him there.

[laserlemon]

Hello and sorry for dropping off the map! I have all of the excuses you'd expect: family and full-time job. I still care very much about Figaro but have had difficulty finding and prioritizing time for its developemnt and gauging its continued value in the community. I'm attempting to provide some solution to both of those problems by opening my sponsorship profile and I've added an UPDATE section to the README with this information as well.

Sorry this answer doesn't provide more immediate results, but I hope that you'll stick with me as I try to navigate back to active Figaro development! 💛

[dgarwood]

@laserlemon are you open to taking on additional maintainers?

[hlascelles]

Yes, I'll offer too. Its a great gem, we'd be very keen to keep it maintained.

[hlascelles]

Yes, I'll offer too. Its a great gem, we'd be very keen to keep it maintained.

[mvz]

What is the status of the version 2 branch? If it's far from releasable, it may be best to release a new 1.x version with updated dependencies.

[scarroll32]

Rails is pushing for using encrypted secrets now, but I still prefer the approach of this Gem. I have mostly worked with Heroku and VPS / Capistrano setups. Not sure if there is still a place for with Kubernetes...

[mvz]

Not everyone is moving to Kubernetes and this gem works fine with Heroku. I'd like to see a new release simply because the current one is preventing me from keeping my dependencies up-to-date. If that's not going to happen I'll try to switch to dotenv-rails.

[hlascelles]

Yes, agree, if we can just get a simple 1.x update with newer dependency ranges, that would be helpful.

[thornomad]

+1 for a dependency update!

[dotconde]

+2 for a dependency update!

[mvz]

@dotconde version 1.2.0 was released some time ago and should be fully up-to-date regarding dependencies.

[scarroll32]

Thank you @mvz

[hlascelles]

Note, figaro has now been forked to a new gem called figjam.

It can be found here:

https://github.com/hlascelles/figjam
https://rubygems.org/gems/figjam

It is initially a direct fork of figaro (without the heroku functionality), even replicating the Figaro module namespace. . PRs from the figaro repo will be ported over in the coming weeks/months.

Do submit PRs there!