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Beware reserved ENV names in Rails

Not all environment variable names are created equal.

For example, if you are using Ruby on Rails, do not declare a VERSION environment variable, there is already one a reserved. The reserved VERSION envar is used by Rails in migrating database changes, so if it is changed at all, you will have problems when making new migrations.

That was a fun error to debug...

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