# Development Mode on Dreamhost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 5, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902 "2006-04-05T18:17:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d6veteran)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902/1 "2006-04-05T18:17:30Z")

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Anyone know (or know where to point me to) to figure out how to force  
Rails into development mode? I’d like to not have to kill dispatch.fcgi  
everytime I make a change. My site is not live and I’m just doing  
development and testing right now.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d6veteran)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902/2 "2006-04-05T18:28:01Z")

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you can set:

ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] = ‘development’

in environment.rb

but you should do all your development locally.

-tak.

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**Author:** ![d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d6veteran)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902/3 "2006-04-05T18:31:05Z")

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On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Arch S. wrote:

> Anyone know (or know where to point me to) to figure out how to force  
> Rails into development mode? I’d like to not have to kill  
> dispatch.fcgi  
> everytime I make a change. My site is not live and I’m just doing  
> development and testing right now.

Why wouldn’t you do dev and testing locally?

–  
Jason P.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

“The computer allows you to make mistakes  
faster than any other invention, with the  
possible exception of handguns and tequila.”

-Mitch Ratcliffe

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**Author:** ![d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d6veteran)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902/4 "2006-04-05T18:51:43Z")

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Brian H. wrote:

> As a Dreamhost subscriber, I will be forced to hunt you down and slap  
> you  
> with a carp if you run in Dev mode. 🙂
> 
> But seriously…  
> fcgi + dev mode = memory leak, and that hurts everyone on a shared host.
> 
> Do your development on your own machine with WEBrick or Mongrel or your  
> own  
> Apache + FCGI.

Ok will do. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@d6veteran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d6veteran)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-mode-on-dreamhost/56902/5 "2006-04-05T18:37:13Z")

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As a Dreamhost subscriber, I will be forced to hunt you down and slap  
you  
with a carp if you run in Dev mode. 🙂

But seriously…  
fcgi + dev mode = memory leak, and that hurts everyone on a shared host.

Do your development on your own machine with WEBrick or Mongrel or your  
own  
Apache + FCGI.