Why environment.rb is useless?

Rails
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Dear all,
I’m a newbie in ROR.

my environment:
ruby 1.8.5
rails 2.0.2
Lighttpd
scgi_rails 0.4.3
working in development model.

questions:

  1. I made some changes to config/environment.rb, and restart
    lighttpd, but the changes didn’t take any effect. I then even change
    RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘2.0.2’ unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
    to
    RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘8.0.2’ unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
    the application start as normal.
    Finally, I deleted environment.rb, but the application runs as well!
    What happened?

  2. in the development model , I once deleted log/development.log
    because it’s too large. then, I made a new development.log file with
    only a line. Strange thing is that, development.log then never change
    any more.

Anyone can explain the above questions?
Thanks a lot!

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On 24 Jun 2008, at 11:15, Bobov wrote:

  1. in the development model , I once deleted log/development.log
    because it’s too large. then, I made a new development.log file with
    only a line. Strange thing is that, development.log then never change
    any more.

Sounds like you’re not running the code you thing you are running (in
particular perhaps you didn’t restart what is actually processing your
rails requests ?)
How are you starting your rails app?

Fred

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Thanks for your information.
I start my rails app using Lighttpd and scgi, as following:
/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
ruby usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service
config/scgi.yaml
And this is the content of scgi.yaml:
:port: 9999
:password: brA4gP6Xahk.6
:logfile: log/scgi.log
:control_url: druby://127.0.0.1:8999
:config: config/scgi.yaml
:disable_signals: true
:env: development
:host: 127.0.0.1
I’m thinking maybe there’s something wrong with scgi.

On 6ÔÂ24ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç6ʱ17·Ö, Frederick C. [email protected]

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On 24 Jun 2008, at 14:41, Bobov wrote:

Thanks for your information.
I start my rails app using Lighttpd and scgi, as following:
/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
ruby usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service

I know nothing about scgi, but I’d guess that the think you need to be
restarting is the scgi_service, not lighttpd

Fred