Question

I must be doing something stupid.

I’m trying to use Passenger to deploy my app on Apache. I get the static 500 error page from rails unless I add

RailsEnv production

to my Virtual Host file.

Here is the working file:

  <VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName ror.weaponxo.com
   DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/Development/test_app/public
   RailsEnv development
   <Directory /home/ubuntu/Development/test_app/public>
     AllowOverride all
     Options -MultiViews
   </Directory>
  </VirtualHost> 

Do I need to somehow tell rails that the environment is production?

I can’t find where log messages are sent either, so debugging has been near impossible. Here’s a related question I asked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9243272/passenger-ruby-on-rails-issues

Thanks

I’m using Rails 3.2.1, Apache2, Ubuntu 10.04

Answer 1

I assume you are using the rails asset pipeline? If so, make sure to run

rake assets:precompile

on your deployed app. For more information, please have a look here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#precompiling-assets