# How do you access environment specific variables?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-access-environment-specific-variables/140385>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 13, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-access-environment-specific-variables/140385 "2008-06-13T13:11:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![chalkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@chalkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chalkers)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-access-environment-specific-variables/140385/1 "2008-06-13T13:11:01Z")

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The documents seem a little out of date on the wiki

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/EnvironmentFiles](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/EnvironmentFiles)  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAddYourOwnConfigInfo](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAddYourOwnConfigInfo)

I am trying to set a value for development for sandboxing using a  
merchant facility

#environments/production  
MERCHANT\_ID = “123”

How do I access this in controllers etc?

Thanks

Chalkers

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**Author:** ![chalkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@chalkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chalkers)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-access-environment-specific-variables/140385/2 "2008-06-13T13:16:20Z")

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I restarted the server and worked :S sorry guys!