Rails - Jul 2006 - Can''t get into production mode!

Hi all,

I''m deploying my first rails app.  I''m using lighty and fcgi,
and cannot
get the app to go into production mode.  I deploy via Capistrano.

When I dump ENV, RAILS_ENV is still ''development''.  Is
something
overriding the lighty config?

Here is the lighty config:

var.appname = "mcalogin"
server.port = 1411
server.modules = ("mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi",
"mod_accesslog")
server.username = "wwwrun"
server.groupname = "www"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access_log"
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error_log"
server.indexfiles = ( "index.html" )
url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html",
"^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html" )
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" 

server.document-root = "/usr/local/rails/" + var.appname +
"/current/public"

mimetype.assign = (
  ".css"  => "text/css",
  ".gif"  => "image/gif",
  ".html" => "text/html",
  ".htm"  => "text/html",
  ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
  ".jpg"  => "image/jpeg",
  ".js"   => "text/javascript",
  ".pdf"  => "application/pdf",
  ".png"  => "image/png",
  ".txt"  => "text/plain",
  ".ppt"  => "application/powerpoint"
)

fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
  ( "localhost" =>
    ( "min-procs" => 1,
      "max-procs" => 3,
      "socket" => "/tmp/" + var.appname +
"fcgi.socket",
      "bin-path" => "/usr/local/rails/" + var.appname +
"/current/public/dispatch.fcgi",
      "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"production" )
    )
  )
)

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" { server.range-requests =
"disable" }
$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.ppt$" { server.range-requests =
"disable" }


Here is the view I built:
<ul>
<li>RAILS_ROOT is <%= h RAILS_ROOT %></li>
<li>expanded path is <%= h File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT)
%></li>
<li>Mode is <%= h ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] %>
</ul>


Here is what I get from the server:

    * RAILS_ROOT is
/usr/local/rails/mcalogin/current/public/../config/..
    * expanded path is /usr/local/rails/mcalogin/current
    * Mode is development 


I thought all I had to do is set RAILS_ENV to ''production'' in
the lighty
config, and rails would be in production mode.  Perhaps I am mistaken?

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

Regards,
Rich