On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:15 AM, kapouer<holisme@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Hi,
> i''m packaging redmine for debian, and i thought it would be nice
> to make config paths settable by environment variables, like those :
> config.log_path
> config.cache_store
> config.database_configuration_file
> ActionController::Base.session_options[:tmpdir]
>
> instead of having to patch or ask upstream any future webapp,
> it would be so nice to configure those variables (or any other
> typically
> configurable path) through environment variables like
> RAILS_LOG
> RAILS_CACHE
> RAILS_ETC
> RAILS_SESSION
> that''s only a proposition.
I don''t really feel that this would be a suitable way of defaulting
those settings within rails itself. However you could override them
in an initializer yourself which wouldn''t require a patch, merely a
new file included in the distribution.
--
Cheers
Koz