# Can't get out of development mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 17, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-out-of-development-mode/117471 "2007-10-17T09:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-out-of-development-mode/117471/1 "2007-10-17T09:35:15Z")
Up until a few days ago everything was fine, production was humming along in production mode without a problem, but then we did a push (using deprec) and now production won’t go back into production mode, but insists on being in development mode. We’ve tried changing the environment.rb to ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ but it still won’t work. Our last push included acts\_as\_ferret, and the addition of an administration system using ActiveScaffold, but no changes to the routes, or any other config file that I’m aware of. Unfortunately I’m not a Linux sys admin so I don’t know much about configuring Apache or Mongrels (we’re running Apache 2 and two Mongrels) but they were running fine in production before this push. Does anyone have any idea of how to get us back into production mode, or even a hint as to what the hell is wrong. TIA Dale ---
**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-out-of-development-mode/117471/2 "2007-10-17T10:26:06Z")
On Oct 17, 12:34 pm, PeteSalty [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Our last push included acts\_as\_ferret, and the addition of an > administration system using ActiveScaffold, but no changes to the > routes, or any other config file that I’m aware of. > > Unfortunately I’m not a Linux sys admin so I don’t know much about > configuring Apache or Mongrels (we’re running Apache 2 and two > Mongrels) but they were running fine in production before this push. > > Does anyone have any idea of how to get us back into production mode, > or even a hint as to what the hell is wrong. Check your mongrel cluster file. The mode might be set as development in it. – Procrastinx ---
**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-out-of-development-mode/117471/3 "2007-10-17T10:26:06Z")
On 17 Oct 2007, at 08:34, PeteSalty wrote: > Up until a few days ago everything was fine, production was humming > along in production mode without a problem, but then we did a push > (using deprec) and now production won’t go back into production mode, > but insists on being in development mode. > We’ve tried changing the environment.rb to > > ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ If you’re using mongrel cluster then the mongrel\_cluster.yml file can set the environment. Have you checked that? Fred ---
**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-out-of-development-mode/117471/4 "2007-10-17T22:21:42Z")
Thanks for the suggestions, turns out that for some reason the mongrel clusters weren’t starting correctly (no idea why) but easily fixed. On Oct 17, 1:25 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)