---
title: "Infisical Ruby SDK"
sidebarTitle: "Ruby"
icon: "/images/sdks/languages/ruby.svg"
---

If you're working with Ruby, the official Infisical Ruby SDK package is the easiest way to fetch and work with secrets for your application.

- [Ruby Package](https://rubygems.org/gems/infisical-sdk)
- [Github Repository](https://github.com/infisical/sdk)

<Warning>
  **Deprecation Notice**

  All versions prior to **2.3.9** should be considered deprecated and are no longer supported by Infisical. Please update to version **2.3.9** or newer. All changes are fully backwards compatible with older versions.
</Warning>

## Basic Usage

```ruby
require 'infisical-sdk'

# 1. Create the Infisical client
infisical = InfisicalSDK::InfisicalClient.new('https://app.infisical.com')

infisical.auth.universal_auth(client_id: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID', client_secret: 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET')

test_secret = infisical.secrets.get(
  secret_name: 'API_KEY',
  project_id: 'project-id',
  environment: 'dev'
)
puts "Secret: #{single_test_secret}"
```

This example demonstrates how to use the Infisical Ruby SDK in a simple Ruby application. The application retrieves a secret named `API_KEY` from the `dev` environment of the `YOUR_PROJECT_ID` project.

<Warning>
    We do not recommend hardcoding your [Machine Identity Tokens](/platform/identities/overview). Setting it as an environment variable would be best.
</Warning>

# Installation

```console
$ gem install infisical-sdk
```
# Configuration

Import the SDK and create a client instance.

```ruby
infisical = InfisicalSDK::InfisicalClient.new('https://app.infisical.com') # Optional parameter, default is https://api.infisical.com
```

### Client parameters

<ParamField query="options" type="object">
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="Site URL" type="string" optional>
            The URL of the Infisical API. Default is `https://api.infisical.com`.
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="Cache TTL" type="string" required>
          How long the client should cache secrets for. Default is 5 minutes. Disable by setting to 0.
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

### Authentication

The SDK supports a variety of authentication methods. The most common authentication method is Universal Auth, which uses a client ID and client secret to authenticate.

#### Universal Auth

**Using environment variables**

Call `auth.universal_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_UNIVERSAL_AUTH_CLIENT_ID` - Your machine identity client ID.
- `INFISICAL_UNIVERSAL_AUTH_CLIENT_SECRET` - Your machine identity client secret.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
infisical.auth.universal_auth(client_id: 'your-client-id', client_secret: 'your-client-secret')
```

#### GCP ID Token Auth
<Info>
  Please note that this authentication method will only work if you're running your application on Google Cloud Platform.
  Please [read more](/documentation/platform/identities/gcp-auth) about this authentication method.
</Info>

**Using environment variables**

Call `.auth.gcp_id_token_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_GCP_AUTH_IDENTITY_ID` - Your Infisical Machine Identity ID.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
infisical.auth.gcp_id_token_auth(identity_id: 'MACHINE_IDENTITY_ID')
```

#### GCP IAM Auth

**Using environment variables**

Call `.auth.gcp_iam_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_GCP_IAM_AUTH_IDENTITY_ID` - Your Infisical Machine Identity ID.
- `INFISICAL_GCP_IAM_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_FILE_PATH` - The path to your GCP service account key file.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
infisical.auth.gcp_iam_auth(identity_id: 'MACHINE_IDENTITY_ID', service_account_key_file_path: 'SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_FILE_PATH')
```

#### AWS IAM Auth
<Info>
  Please note that this authentication method will only work if you're running your application on AWS.
  Please [read more](/documentation/platform/identities/aws-auth) about this authentication method.
</Info>

**Using environment variables**

Call `.auth.aws_iam_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_AWS_IAM_AUTH_IDENTITY_ID` - Your Infisical Machine Identity ID.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
infisical.auth.aws_iam_auth(identity_id: 'MACHINE_IDENTITY_ID')
```


#### Azure Auth
<Info>
  Please note that this authentication method will only work if you're running your application on Azure.
  Please [read more](/documentation/platform/identities/azure-auth) about this authentication method.
</Info>

**Using environment variables**

Call `.auth.azure_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_AZURE_AUTH_IDENTITY_ID` - Your Infisical Machine Identity ID.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
infisical.auth.azure_auth(identity_id: 'MACHINE_IDENTITY_ID')
```

#### Kubernetes Auth
<Info>
  Please note that this authentication method will only work if you're running your application on Kubernetes.
  Please [read more](/documentation/platform/identities/kubernetes-auth) about this authentication method.
</Info>

**Using environment variables**

Call `.auth.kubernetes_auth()` with empty arguments to use the following environment variables:

- `INFISICAL_KUBERNETES_IDENTITY_ID` - Your Infisical Machine Identity ID.
- `INFISICAL_KUBERNETES_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN_PATH_ENV_NAME` - The environment variable name that contains the path to the service account token. This is optional and will default to `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token`.

**Using the SDK directly**
```ruby
# Service account token path will default to /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token if empty value is passed
infisical.auth.kubernetes_auth(identity_id: 'MACHINE_IDENTITY_ID', service_account_token_path: nil)
```

## Working with Secrets

### client.secrets.list(options)

```ruby
secrets = infisical.secrets.list(
  project_id: 'PROJECT_ID',
  environment: 'dev',
  path: '/foo/bar',
)
```

Retrieve all secrets within the Infisical project and environment that client is connected to

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object">
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="environment" type="string" required>
            The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="project_id" type="string">
            The project ID where the secret lives in.
        </ParamField>

         <ParamField query="path" type="string" optional>
            The path from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="attach_to_process_env" type="boolean" default="false" optional>
             Whether or not to set the fetched secrets to the process environment. If true, you can access the secrets like so `System.getenv("SECRET_NAME")`.
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="include_imports" type="boolean" default="false" optional>
             Whether or not to include imported secrets from the current path. Read about [secret import](/documentation/platform/secret-reference)
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="recursive" type="boolean" default="false" optional>
            Whether or not to fetch secrets recursively from the specified path. Please note that there's a 20-depth limit for recursive fetching.
        </ParamField>

        <ParamField query="expand_secret_references" type="boolean" default="true" optional>
            Whether or not to expand secret references in the fetched secrets. Read about [secret reference](/documentation/platform/secret-reference)
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>

</ParamField>

### client.secrets.get(options)

```ruby
secret = infisical.secrets.get(
  secret_name: 'API_KEY',
  project_id: project_id,
  environment: env_slug
)
```

Retrieve a secret from Infisical.

By default, `Secrets().Retrieve()` fetches and returns a shared secret.

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" optional>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="secret_name" type="string" required>
            The key of the secret to retrieve.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="project_id" type="string" required>
            The project ID where the secret lives in.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="environment" type="string" required>
            The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="path" type="string" optional>
            The path from where secret should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="type" type="string" optional>
            The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

### client.secrets.create(options)

```ruby
new_secret = infisical.secrets.create(
  secret_name: 'NEW_SECRET',
  secret_value: 'SECRET_VALUE',
  project_id: 'PROJECT_ID',
  environment: 'dev',
)
```

Create a new secret in Infisical.

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" optional>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="secret_name" type="string" required>
            The key of the secret to create.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="secret_value" type="string" required>
            The value of the secret.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="secret_comment" type="string" optional>
            A comment for the secret.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="project_id" type="string" required>
            The project ID where the secret lives in.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="environment" type="string" required>
            The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="path" type="string" optional>
            The path from where secret should be created.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="type" type="string" optional>
            The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

### client.secrets.update(options)

```ruby
updated_secret = infisical.secrets.update(
  secret_name: 'SECRET_KEY_TO_UPDATE',
  secret_value: 'NEW_SECRET_VALUE',
  project_id: 'PROJECT_ID',
  environment: 'dev',
)
```

Update an existing secret in Infisical.

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" optional>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="secret_name" type="string" required>
            The key of the secret to update.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="secret_value" type="string" required>
            The new value of the secret.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="skip_multiline_encoding" type="boolean" default="false" optional>
            Whether or not to skip multiline encoding for the new secret value.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="project_id" type="string" required>
            The project ID where the secret lives in.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="environment" type="string" required>
            The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="path" type="string" optional>
            The path from where secret should be updated.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="type" type="string" optional>
            The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

### client.secrets.delete(options)

```ruby
deleted_secret = infisical.secrets.delete(
  secret_name: 'SECRET_TO_DELETE',
  project_id: 'PROJECT_ID',
  environment: 'dev',
)
```

Delete a secret in Infisical.

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" optional>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="secret_name" type="string">
            The key of the secret to update.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="project_id" type="string" required>
            The project ID where the secret lives in.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="environment" type="string" required>
            The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="path" type="string" optional>
            The path from where secret should be deleted.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="type" type="string" optional>
            The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>


## Cryptography

### Create a symmetric key

Create a base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key to be used for encryption/decryption.

```ruby
key = infisical.cryptography.create_symmetric_key
```

#### Returns (string)
`key` (string): A base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key, that can be used for encryption/decryption purposes.

### Encrypt symmetric
```ruby
encrypted_data = infisical.cryptography.encrypt_symmetric(data: "Hello World!", key: key)
```

#### Parameters

<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" required>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="data" type="string">
            The plaintext you want to encrypt.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="key" type="string" required>
            The symmetric key to use for encryption.
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

#### Returns (object)
`tag` (string): A base64-encoded, 128-bit authentication tag.
`iv` (string): A base64-encoded, 96-bit initialization vector.
`ciphertext` (string): A base64-encoded, encrypted ciphertext.


### Decrypt symmetric
```ruby
decrypted_data = infisical.cryptography.decrypt_symmetric(
  ciphertext: encrypted_data['ciphertext'],
  iv: encrypted_data['iv'],
  tag: encrypted_data['tag'],
  key: key
)
```

#### Parameters
<ParamField query="Parameters" type="object" required>
    <Expandable title="properties">
        <ParamField query="ciphertext" type="string">
            The ciphertext you want to decrypt.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="key" type="string" required>
            The symmetric key to use for encryption.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="iv" type="string" required>
            The initialization vector to use for decryption.
        </ParamField>
        <ParamField query="tag" type="string" required>
            The authentication tag to use for decryption.
        </ParamField>
    </Expandable>
</ParamField>

#### Returns (string)
`Plaintext` (string): The decrypted plaintext.