Settings & dotenv

Use case: configure a project with settings and a .env file, and reach those values from task bodies — keeping secrets in the environment, not the Runefile.

Demonstrates: settings, dotenv, exported variables · Guide: Variables and settings

Prerequisites: none

Run it

rune show

Expected output

app=demo greeting=hello

app is a Runefile variable made available to the body by set export; greeting comes from the .env file in this directory (GREETING=hello).

How it works

set export exports Runefile variables into task environments; a project .env is loaded automatically. Put secrets in the environment (or .env, kept out of version control) — never as literals in the Runefile.