How do you boot a rails app on a remote server into Development?

Question

I totally apologize for being so naiive. But when I deploy to production, it is automatically boots up in production mode.

How do I alternatively boot this up in development mode?

Answer 1

Depends on what you are using to run your Rails application.

• If you are using Passenger for Apache, set RailsEnv to development in your vhost, then restart the web server. For Passenger on Nginx check here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#_ruby_on_rails_specific_options
• If you are using mongrel or thin, it has an option for that. Check their docs
• If you are using script/server pass it as an argument: script/server development
• Or if you are using rails server (for rails 3): rails server -e development

Often you can also set the environment variable RAILS_ENV to do this as well, for example: RAILS_ENV=development rails server