Question

How do we pass the :rails_env vairable so that it recognizes what version we are into i.e. staging, production, demo

We are trying to get the :rails_env from the deploy.rb in capistrano to pass to cookbook and then to monit and then create a mongrel.conf file with different values for the environment (demo..production). In mongrel.erb, we can pick up this variable/parameter and set the RAILS_ENV=xxxx

in the command line, want to specify what deployment we are doing -- cap chef:bootstrap production

this "production" sets the :rails_env in deploy.rb

Answer 1

Set the environment variable in your shell (command line) before running your scripts and let your scripts pick up it s value i.e.:

export RAILS_ENV=production

You can access the value of RAILS_ENV using $RAILS_ENV in your scripts. Here s an example of somebody doing something similar at Pivotal Labs:

http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/1286-chef-solo-is-great-you-might-not-need-client-server-

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