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| -rw-r--r-- | railties/lib/rails/application.rb | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/application.rb b/railties/lib/rails/application.rb index 6bc6c548d2..038284ebdd 100644 --- a/railties/lib/rails/application.rb +++ b/railties/lib/rails/application.rb @@ -409,7 +409,8 @@ module Rails # The secret_key_base is used as the input secret to the application's key generator, which in turn # is used to create all MessageVerifiers/MessageEncryptors, including the ones that sign and encrypt cookies. # - # In test and development, this is simply derived as a MD5 hash of the application's name. + # In development and test, this is randomly generated and stored in a + # temporary file in <tt>tmp/development_secret.txt</tt>. # # In all other environments, we look for it first in ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"], # then credentials.secret_key_base, and finally secrets.secret_key_base. For most applications, |