Comments on: Set RAILS_ENV for Phusion Passenger on Dreamhost

By: Tadd Giles

Tadd Giles — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:27:05 +0000

This helped me a lot. Thanks much!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:56:22 +0000

Thanks very much, not with dreamhost, but had the same problem.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:40:54 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It got me out of the deployment problem I was having on DH. I had to make the same change as Sjors pointed out. I had to change the echo to look like this:

echo “ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ‘#{rails_env}’” > #{tmp};

Thanks again!

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:32:43 +0000

@Christoph

That may work fine for users that run their web server using Apache, but there are plenty of people who don’t (including myself).

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:42:30 +0000

Why don’t you put the RailsEnv variable into the public/.htaccess file. This should do the trick if AllowOverride Options is on.

By: katz

katz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:12:14 +0000

I’m a dreamhost user as well. Struggling to set rails environment of staging app to staging. One app with multiple environments sounds so complicated with shared hosting.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:14:14 +0000

@chovy,

If you do get it up for a vote on Dreamhost, I’ll gladly spend some of my voting credits to vote for it.

By: chovy

chovy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:20:40 +0000

I’m going lobby Dreamhost to allow for us to set the RailsEnv string from their interface.

This really is a problem with their api…and if fixed, should make it easy to define things like:

stage.example.com => RailsEnv “staging”
test.example.com => RailsEnv “test”
http://www.example.com => RailsEnv “production”

By: Shrikant Lokhande

Shrikant Lokhande — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:48:18 +0000

Change in config/environment.rb

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= ‘production’
To
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ‘staging’

If you need perticuler staging ENV.

Thanks-
Shrii
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lokhande.shrikant@gmail.com

By: Billee D.

Billee D. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:01:02 +0000

Awesome. It’s nice to see little nuggets of useful info about running Rails on specific hosting platforms now. I love DreamHost — been an avid customer for 4 or more years now — and after many years of PHP and Java I am really beginning to love the Ruby/Rails combo. And Capistrano makes things so easy to manage from a deployment perspective it’s spooky.

Thanks for sharing! :-)