I think this speaks to the importance of finding the right terminology to clearly separate app settings (the user-defined settings loaded from .env* files) from app configuration (the framework defined settings for controlling its built-in behaviours).
In fact, you can actually use the former to configure the latter, e.g.
module MyApp
class Application < Hamami::Application
# In this context:
# - `settings` are the app _settings_ (user-defined)
# - `config` is the app _configuration_ (framework-defined)
config.sessions = :cookie, {
key: "my_app.session",
secret: settings.session_secret,
#### ^ App setting being used as an app configuration value!
expire_after: 60*60*24*365
}
Am definitely open to ideas from the community about clarifying the naming here.