diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile index 5733f85..2762ea0 100644 --- a/Gemfile +++ b/Gemfile @@ -162,3 +162,8 @@ gem 'bzip2-ffi' # gem "dartsass-rails", "~> 0.5.1" gem 'rails-healthcheck' + +# .env files are used for credentials because the deployment system +# (Dokku) uses environment variables to specify the database connection string +# https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv +gem 'dotenv'