Rails - Jul 2006 - Can I use Production mode but with Dev type characteristics?

Hi,

I have a local development environment and remote production 
environment, however I am really just learning/playing, hence I would 
like to be able to define these environments separately in the config 
files, however....

I would like my production environment to really act in a development 
mode fashion at the moment (i.e. sense updates I make without any need 
to restart things etc).

Is this possible?  i.e. I guess I am assuming that the environment 
setting in environment.rb of PRODUCTION both (a) points to the prod 
database settings but also (b) implies the production characteristics(?)

Thanks

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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Greg Hauptmann
wrote:
> I have a local development environment and remote production 
> environment, however I am really just learning/playing, hence I would 
> like to be able to define these environments separately in the config 
> files, however....
> 
> I would like my production environment to really act in a development 
> mode fashion at the moment (i.e. sense updates I make without any need 
> to restart things etc).
You can always duplicate the various configuration parameters you want out
of config/environments/development.rb into .../production.rb.  You could
also create a new environment, maybe call it "pseudoprod", which has
the
desired mix of settings -- just create a new stanza is config/database.yml,
and a new file in config/environments.  You can then leave your development
and production environments alone (which is good from a
principle-of-least-surprise perspective).

- Matt