The best way to set up a staging server is for it to be configured as close to production as possible, so I always run my staging server using the production.rb environment. If there are differences (like which S3 bucket to use), I put them in ENV settings or in files that aren't under version control. So I think having a staging.rb file is the wrong way to go.
I also always have a demo environment that is meant for feature acceptance, which is a different role than staging and often has different configuration. I think this is very common for projects that use agile where the PM does story acceptance. But I don't expect that to become standard in Rails. I think development, testing, and production are really the only ubiquitous environments I've seen, and are exactly the right set for Rails to include as standard. -- Josh Susser http://blog.hasmanythrough.com On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote: > Rails is well known for having good conventions and defaults. So it > comes pre-configured with 3 common environments: development, test and > production. > > But I think that having a staging environment is also pretty common and > a good default and I'd ask you to also include this environment by default. > > Also, I'd like to suggest a change in the production.rb template: > > # See everything in the log (default is :info) > # config.log_level = :debug > > This shouldn't be commented. Here is the reason: > > find . -name '*.rb' | xargs grep Rails.env.production | grep log > > ./railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb: @log_level ||= > Rails.env.production? ? :info : :debug > > So, if you decide to copy your production.rb settings to staging.rb > you'll have a surprise when you see different logs. > > Does it make sense? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
