Question

I don’t know if the correct title for this is hot deploy.
I am modifying controllers and views and I have to restart the server to view those changes.

Why? I think that it didn’t worked like this.
I am using webrick server. Environment is development.

I am using Rails 3.1

Answer 1

Go to your config/environments/development.rb and make sure you have:

Railsapp::Application.configure do
  config.cache_classes = false      
  # ...
end

In mine, it comes with this explanatory comment:

  # In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
  # every request.  This slows down response time but is perfect for development
  # since you don't have to restart the webserver when you make code changes.
  config.cache_classes = false