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I am using Windows Subsystem for Linux with Rails 5.2 and Sublime Text 3. When i do

EDITOR="subl --wait" rails credentials:edit

It says "New credentials encrypted and saved." but does not open the file to be edited with Sublime Text 3. Also when trying Visual Studio Code with

EDITOR="code --wait" rails credentials:edit

Visual Studio Code opens but it is empty.

I can only edit the file with VIM and the command EDITOR="vim" rails credentials:edit

The thing is i do not want to edit the file with vim. What is the problem so it does not open the file to be edited with Sublime or VS Code?

I am using Rails 5.2

Thanks a lot in advance

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On macOS, you would run this command to edit the credentials in Sublime. When you are done, save and close the file in Sublime:

EDITOR="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl -w" bin/rails credentials:edit
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I am on windows 7x64 and stumbled upon this issue this morning.Solved it by adding atom to my system variable Path(so cmd & powershell & bash all know about it) and by adding powershell to my environment.I use separate environment for ruby & rails.

So now when I type set EDITOR=atom --wait && rails credentials:edit in cmd or

1st $env:EDITOR="atom --wait", 2nd rails credentials:editin powershell or

EDITOR="atom --wait" rails credentials:edit in bash,

I get the desired result wich is to open credentials and edit them :).. Hope this helps

PS. I didn't need to use --wait flag when setting the editor to subl or notepad! EDITOR is just a temporary variable for the current session, meaning for the cmd,powershell or bash window that is opened at the moment!

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By default Sublime Text Editor is not configured to be run directly from the command line. You're trying to set the EDITOR variable to "subl --wait", but the command line doesn't know what "subl" is! Try this post which goes into detail on setting up a "subl" alias for starting up sublime on the command line, then try again!

Open Sublime Text from Terminal in macOS

EDIT: Noticed you are on Ubuntu and not MacOS, but that post should still work as long as you're using bash, which is the default shell on Ubuntu.

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I did configure subl command in Terminal, so when i type subl it opens Sublime Text 3. Same thing as sublime happens with Atom, Notepad, Wordpad
Noticed a typo in your VS Code example, you need a space between code and --wait, not a regular sublime user, but I did get it to work with Atom like this: EDITOR="atom --wait" rails credentials:edit
i copied code --wait wrong. I am running it with code --wait. When i am trying to run it with Atom, i get same behavior with VS Code (empty file)
Are you able to open Atom/Code from the terminal, i.e. atom . or code . to open the current directory?
yes i am able to open Atom/Code from the terminal to current directory.
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I have succeeded my following this

 SET EDITOR="full_path to sublime"
 rails credentials:edit

after closing sublime only i am getting new credentials saved response.

Hope it helps

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