OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError when running staging DB on local

Question

I just copied our staging server database into my development, and now I receive this error whenever I load any data

OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError

Which occurs at the following piece of code

credentials = encrypted_credentials.inject({}) do |hash, (key, value)|
   hash[key] = AESCrypt.decrypt(value, password) <-----------
   hash
end

Anybody have a clue why this is?

Lomax

Answer 1

Turned out I was using the wrong encryption password, because it was stored in a environment variable

Lomax

Answer 2

I (mostly) followed the instructions here: https://myrtana.sk/articles/howto-fix-rails-7-openssl-cipher-error

Steps:

• Removed credentials.yml
• Created new credentials file using VS Code EDITOR='code --w' bin/rails credentials:edit

Wille