Secret key base is required during Docker build if credentials used in before_action about rails HOT 3 OPEN

Is there ever a reason you would need to decrypt credentials for the purpose of precompiling assets though? Is this not an error that could be caught and ignored?

This isn't a Rails issue. It's how Ruby works. You added a class level code that tries to read credentials when class is loaded. There's no way for Rails to catch and ignore

You can see this in IRB by defining a simple class with puts in it:

irb(main):001:1* class Test
irb(main):002:1*   puts "something at load time"
irb(main):006:0> end
something at load time

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This is about missing credentials, which cannot be decrypted without the key. You are reading a password from credentrials at class level, which is evaluated as soon as the controller is loaded and interpreted.

To avoid this see the advanced example here: https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/HttpAuthentication/Basic.html

that is define a custom method that checks the credentials. This way it won't be executed during loading of the code.

Alternatively you could do what http_basic_authenticate_with already does under the hood:

before_action :authenticate_with_basic

private

def authenticate_with_basic
   http_basic_authenticate_with name: "admin", password: Rails.application.credentials.dig(:http_auth, :password)
end

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Is there ever a reason you would need to decrypt credentials for the purpose of precompiling assets though? Is this not an error that could be caught and ignored?

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