Question

I set up my rails app on my linode VPS, phusion passenger is installed and working, so is mysql (I know this cause my friend currently is running 2 production apps on it with the same set up). The VPS is running Ubuntu 10.10 and I’m using apache2 with passenger.

I SFTP’d the app to the server, bundle updated, set up my virtual host and specified RailsEnv to be production and paths are all accurate.

I then restarted the server (as root) with
apachectl -k restart
tried to rake db:migrate and it didn’t do anything, so I figured it was because the environment didn’t get changed, which is exactly what happend. If I go into the rails console and type Rails.env it gives me development.

I have no idea why, I did everything that should set it to production? Anyone know what I may have missed? Is there somewhere in the app where I’m supposed to change something to say production environment? I thought that only had to be done in rails 2.x

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Answer 1

The RailsEnv setting is only for Passenger’s use. It doesn’t affect the commands you type in the shell.

Use

RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

and

RAILS_ENV=production rails console

Or set the RAILS_ENV environment variable in your login shell to production so that you don’t have to append RAILS_ENV=production to the commands you issue:

export RAILS_ENV=production

(exact command may vary depending on which shell you use; the above works in bash)