Comments on: Set RAILS_ENV for Phusion Passenger on Dreamhost

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!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:19:42 +0000

Yeah, I wouldnt cut and paste directly from the listing because of CR-LF issues between unix and windows (unless you view the plaintext version).

Also, strange you had to set ENV['RAILS_ENV'] instead of just RAILS_ENV. I had the exact opposite case on my dreamhost server.

By: Sjors Provoost

Sjors Provoost — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:37:48 +0000

Thanks, that was really helpful!

I had to make to minor changes:

Line 9: CMD
Make sure to remove the spaces after “CMD”

Line 7 I had to change from:
echo ‘RAILS_ENV = “#{rails_env}”‘ > #{tmp};
to:
echo ‘ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = “#{rails_env}”‘ > #{tmp};