Great explanation.   Here's your gold star:  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainriver/402725339/

Thanks Pedro!

On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Pedro Belo wrote:

>
> Hi Sarah!
>
> Rails "injects" a few actions to your server when running in
> development, and this link takes you to one of them
> (/rails/info/properties).
>
> In production they're disabled probably to avoid the overhead -- plus
> the information displayed in there can be very useful for attackers
> looking for specific Rails versions.
>
> Pedro
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Sarah Allen<sa...@ultrasaurus.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> So, I'm using my favorite hosting service in a Ruby on Rails class  
>> I'm
>> teaching.  I get the students to post a vanilla rails app on Heroku
>> for starters and one of them clicks on the link "About your
>> application’s environment"
>>
>> "Why?" she asks, "does it say: The page you were looking for doesn't
>> exist, when it works in my local environment?"
>>
>> "um..." I say, "Rails must be doing something Heroku doesn't allow."
>> which I consider to be a totally lame answer.
>>
>> I'll give a gold star to anyone who can give me a better, more  
>> precise
>> answer.  You can see the problem here:  http://falling-summer-57.heroku.com/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sarah
>>>
>>
>
> >

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