Rails - Feb 2006 - New Environment?

Hello all,
I was wondering if it is possible to create a new environment? IE I  
want a fourth environment set called Stage. The reason being is that  
we want to run a staging server of sorts. This server will run a copy  
of our app that is rebuilt via switchtower every hour. We don''t want  
it to run in as test we want it to run as a production environment  
but some of our classes rely on a variable set in the environments/ 
environment.rb (where the second environment is either test,  
development, or production) file specific to the server they are  
running on. We have a different variable set for production,  
development, and test and would like to add the new environment  
called stage.rb. Is it as easy as creating a new database definition  
in the yml file called stage, and adding in a stage.rb file. Or is it  
more difficult than that? Obviously we would tell lighty what  
environment it is supposed to load.

Thanks for the help.

Andrew

On 24/02/06, Andrew Filipowski <a.filipowski@mac.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
> I was wondering if it is possible to create a new environment? IE I
> want a fourth environment set called Stage. The reason being is that
> we want to run a staging server of sorts. This server will run a copy
> of our app that is rebuilt via switchtower every hour. We don''t
want
> it to run in as test we want it to run as a production environment
> but some of our classes rely on a variable set in the environments/
> environment.rb (where the second environment is either test,
> development, or production) file specific to the server they are
> running on. We have a different variable set for production,
> development, and test and would like to add the new environment
> called stage.rb. Is it as easy as creating a new database definition
> in the yml file called stage, and adding in a stage.rb file. Or is it
> more difficult than that? Obviously we would tell lighty what
> environment it is supposed to load.
It is just as simple as you say. Just make a copy of one of the files
in config/environments with a  new name, provide additional entry in
database.yml. and make sure that RAILS_ENV has new value.

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?ukasz Piestrzeniewicz