# Switching from development to production? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 12, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322 "2006-05-12T03:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/1 "2006-05-12T03:31:32Z")
I think I’m missing a step here, but they don’t seem to cover this in the AWDWR book… does anybody know the various steps required to switch from development to production mode in Rails? I’ve scoured the application and changed everything that stands out, but the damn thing is still running off the development database and won’t connect to the production one. Or more accurately, since the production database is empty, it won’t “break” for me. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/2 "2006-05-12T09:27:31Z")
sean colquhoun wrote: > I think I’m missing a step here, but they don’t seem to cover this in > the AWDWR book… does anybody know the various steps required to switch > from development to production mode in Rails? I’ve scoured the > application and changed everything that stands out, but the damn thing > is still running off the development database and won’t connect to the > production one. Or more accurately, since the production database is > empty, it won’t “break” for me. this is in environment.rb: # Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when # you don’t control web/app server and can’t set it the proper way # ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ but I don’t think that’s the proper way. I’m pretty sure it’s just a setting in a config file somewhere like this though. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/3 "2006-05-12T09:35:38Z")
> this is in environment.rb: > > # Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when > > # you don’t control web/app server and can’t set it the proper way > > # ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ > > but I don’t think that’s the proper way. I’m pretty sure it’s just a > setting in a config file somewhere like this though. Yeah, see that’s the strange part. I did that, and it’s still working. I don’t think I’ve set it properly. There wouldn’t be anyone around who happens to know the “proper” way, would there? ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/4 "2006-05-12T18:08:02Z")
sean colquhoun wrote: > Yeah, see that’s the strange part. I did that, and it’s still working. I > don’t think I’ve set it properly. There wouldn’t be anyone around who > happens to know the “proper” way, would there? Did you restart your server after changing the configuration? The environment is only read on start up. script/server -e production – Ray ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/5 "2006-05-12T17:27:08Z")
What OS are you running on? Do you have an environment variable RAILS\_ENV set? ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/6 "2006-05-15T06:33:12Z")
I beleive the built in web server in rails works differently than when you deploy on Apache. On 5/14/06, sean colquhoun [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/7 "2006-05-15T06:39:22Z")
Jón Borgþórsson wrote: > I beleive the built in web server in rails works differently than when > you deploy on Apache. Good point. Would there be an equivalent necessary step when setting it up on Apache? ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/8 "2006-05-15T05:09:50Z")
Ray B. wrote: > sean colquhoun wrote: > > > Yeah, see that’s the strange part. I did that, and it’s still working. I > > don’t think I’ve set it properly. There wouldn’t be anyone around who > > happens to know the “proper” way, would there? > > Did you restart your server after changing the configuration? The > environment is only read on start up. > > script/server -e production > > – > > Ray Holy s\*\*t. It worked! What does “script/server -e production” do? I was just using script/server as always. I didn’t know you had to specify anything in the command line to set it as well. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-from-development-to-production/60322/9 "2006-05-17T00:16:18Z")
Nobb… When using Apache then the enviroment.rb step you did should work, On 5/15/06, sean colquhoun [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) –