nv is a lightweight utility to load context specific environment variables from a .env file before executing a command or command line program.
$ brew update
$ brew tap jcouture/nv
$ brew install nv
$ mkdir nv
$ cd nv
$ export GOPATH=`pwd`
$ go get -u github.com/jcouture/nv
You create a .env file as follows:
PORT=4200
SECRET_KEY_BASE=3b4476c0f6793b575050a1241438c32de8cbd3b7dec67910369657e1c4c41785
DATABASE_URL=postgres://dbuser:@localhost:5432/playground_dev?pool=10
You are ready to use nv to load your context specific environment variables
$ nv .env rails server
nv is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.