# Production mode acting like development?!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/production-mode-acting-like-development/115000>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/production-mode-acting-like-development/115000 "2007-09-19T16:41:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/production-mode-acting-like-development/115000/1 "2007-09-19T16:41:36Z")

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if I run  
mongrel\_rails start -e production -d -p 8000

the CSS and JS files are still getting a random number tacked on.  
Rails is logging in the production log though. Eventually I’ll serve  
these types of files via apache or lighty, but for now, I’d like to  
figure out what’s going wrong.

- Mark.