Last minute switch to production mode - recommended?

Rails Deployment
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Question - My rails project is due in in a few hours. It’s running on
the net in development mode, on a Bluehost shared server. Because its
in dev mode, if anything goes wrong you get the nasty rails crash info
(useful for me, bad for users).

Maybe it’s the coffee, but i’ve got a sudden urge to get it running in
production mode so i can do some nice ‘error’ pages for the 404 and 500.
Getting it working in dev mode required quite a lot of work on several
people’s parts just due to the vagaries of Bluehost mainly.

So - switching to production mode. Have i lost it? Should i stick with
what i’ve got? Or go for it? How do i go about doing it if i want to?
I’ve got the production database set up - do i need anything else?

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If it’s a pain to get the databases set up, then the quickest way to get
into production mode is such:

config/database.yml – set production database to development database
config/environment.rb – manually set RAILS_ENV to production

Restart your server and you’re in production mode.

Jason

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Jason R. wrote:

If it’s a pain to get the databases set up, then the quickest way to get
into production mode is such:

config/database.yml – set production database to development database
config/environment.rb – manually set RAILS_ENV to production

Restart your server and you’re in production mode.

Jason

cheers!