Rspec Carrierwave/fog/aws

I'm trying to start testing my application (admittedly did not follow good TDD because I'm writing tests after the fact). When I go to run it I'm getting the below error, even though I'm not testing anything anything with the uploader right now.

/home/action/.gem/ruby/2.1.1/gems/fog-core-1.30.0/lib/fog/core/service.rb:244:in `validate_options': Missing required arguments: aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key (ArgumentError) 

I have my aws keys defined properly in an application.yml file using the Figaro gem so I'm not sure why I'm getting this error.

All I'm testing right now is this:

company_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe Company do

    it { should validate_presence_of(:company_name)}

end

but I can't even run that test. I'm a noob to testing so any help would be appreciated here. Thank you!