How to set RAILS_ENV for different directories (fcgid)

Rails
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Hello!

I want to use the same application in two environments (production and
development) on the same server (apache2 with fcgid) in different
(aliased) directories.

Is there a way to specify RAILS_ENV inside my directives? I
have the line
DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production
in my httpd.conf but I want one of the directories to be development.

Setting the ENV var directly in environment.rb is not an option because
I update the production server via SVN but need to keep environment.rb
in my repository.

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[email protected] wrote:

Setting the ENV var directly in environment.rb is not an option because
I update the production server via SVN but need to keep environment.rb
in my repository.

You could make the enviroment.rb more dynamic, i.e. compute the value
for
RAILS_ENV from the current path. A hack but all ruby:

RAILS_ENV = case hostname.chomp
when “myserver”: /myproduction_dir/.match(File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT)) ? ‘production’ : 'development
else ‘development’
end

Or something along these lines.

zsombor

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Hi,

I had the same problem. Unfortunately my solution was to change the
environment.rb for the production app.

In Apache I have two virtual hosts, and I put the following in the
staging defination :

SetEnv RAILS_ENV development

and in the production host I put :

SetEnv RAILS_ENV production

But for some reason that does not work. Maybe someone can tell us why
this solution does not work.

Kind Regards
Hamza