# Passer un fichier d'environnement à l'image de développement ?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pass-env-file-to-dev-image/88925
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [Juin 1, 2018, 3:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pass-env-file-to-dev-image/88925 "2018-06-01T15:22:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mmayo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mmayo)
#### Post date: [Juin 1, 2018, 3:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pass-env-file-to-dev-image/88925/1 "2018-06-01T15:22:06Z")
I don’t see an obvious way to pass environment variables to the dev image, maybe I am missing something? If no such mechanism exists, would Discourse be open to a PR providing the option in the `boot_dev` script?
Something like:
```plaintext
ENV_ARGS=""
while ["${#@}" -ne "0"]; do
case "$1" in
# redacted for brevity
-i | --init)
initialize="initialize"
;;
-e | --env)
if [-z "$2"]; then
show_help
exit 0
else
ENV_ARGS="--env-file=$2"
break
fi
;;
# further redacted for brevity
docker run -d -p 1080:1080 -p 3000:3000 -v "$DATA_DIR:/shared/postgres_data:delegated" -v "$SOURCE_DIR:/src:delegated" $ENV_ARGS --hostname=discourse --name=discourse_dev --restart=always discourse/discourse_dev:release /sbin/boot
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Juin 4, 2018, 5:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pass-env-file-to-dev-image/88925/2 "2018-06-04T05:04:47Z")
Sure, I have not had to do this in the past so it makes sense it is missing. Feel free to add a PR for improving `boot_dev`, your idea seems pretty spot on, `--env-file` can be a good first move though probably worth supporting `--env` like docker uses as well.
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### Author:  [@mmayo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mmayo)
#### Post date: [Juillet 31, 2018, 9:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pass-env-file-to-dev-image/88925/3 "2018-07-31T21:39:50Z")
Finally was able to turn back to this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6212](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6212)