Comments on: mod_rails set RAILS_ENV variable to QA, Staging, or Production

By: Unirec

Unirec — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:21:49 +0000

After trying every other method I could find, I added Andrew’s solution to my ‘witches brew’ – works great. Thanks!

[I can't believe this hack is required to set up a simple staging environment (in a multistage system). I got into Rails to try to avoid this kind of BS...]

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:36:06 +0000

I just used this and it was a huge help!

By: Andrew Vit

Andrew Vit — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:40:11 +0000

Thanks! I just saw your answer to my question in the dreamhost forums from back in May… I’ve already set up something similar, except I’m skipping the regex & extra rb file for a simple solution all in my deploy.rb file. It just prefixes the file with the RAILS_ENV using cat:

after "deploy:finalize_update", "deploy:set_rails_env"

namespace :deploy do
task :set_rails_env do
tmp = "#{current_release}/tmp/environment.rb"
final = "#{current_release}/config/environment.rb"
run <<-BASH
echo 'RAILS_ENV = "#{rails_env}"' > #{tmp};
cat #{final} >> #{tmp} && mv #{tmp} #{final};
BASH
end
end