Meteor Settings in a Deployed App

Question

This is probably a very basic question, but this is my first time using Meteor + Heroku and I can't seem to figure out how to use the settings.json file after deploying a Meteor app (currently using heroku).

From my hours of research on web, it seems that in order to use the settings in a deployed app, I have to do...

export METEOR_SETTINGS="$(cat settings.json)"

At first I thought that this is meant to go to a boostrap file... Then I realized I was wrong when I started get reserved word errors (because of "export")

So... Where and how do I use this line? Am I suppose to use terminal to type this in? If so, how can I do that in Heroku?

Answer 1

The heroku config:add... command didn't work for me, but I was able to use heroku's dashboard to set my environment variables. You can find the dashboard tab at: https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/yourAppName/settings, and then click on Reveal Config Vars

Answer 2

Basically: heroku config:add METEOR_SETTINGS="$(cat settings.json)".