So where does Rails pick up the environment context (dev, test, prod).
Lets say i am taking my Rails code to a prod server, how do i tell rails to use the prod env file/properties?
A:
You set the environment variable RAILS_ENV to production or development. You can do that through Phusion Passenger's RailsEnv setting (assuming you're using Phusion Passenger, and if you aren't, why aren't you? :) ), or through Apache's SetEnv parameter, or using the configuration parameter of whatever server you're running on.
(If you're using Phusion Passenger, RailsEnv is set to production by default.)
mipadi
2010-07-15 22:04:57
Because passenger is not a silver-bullet.
jpartogi
2010-07-15 22:12:27
yea i just deployed using passenger. Where can i find RAILS_ENV?Also does passenger overwrite RAILS_ENV property by default?
2010-07-15 22:23:37
ok sorry got it, i just read "environment variable" - RAILS_ENV. So passenger's RailsEnv directive overide the environment variable
2010-07-15 22:29:44
sorry i had a long day, i get it. thanks.
2010-07-15 22:34:27