# Setting environment variables for test and development

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**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-environment-variables-for-test-and-development/138709 "2020-01-15T17:51:57Z")\
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I’m thinking of adding the dotenv gem ([GitHub - bkeepers/dotenv: A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`. · GitHub](https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv)) to my plugin for testing and development purposes. This is so that I can easily set my environment variables per environment.

I was wondering if I’m missing something and there’s a better way of achieving this?

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