Can I add my own application environment?

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I'd like to set up a fourth environment for the application to run in. Something which will behave exactly as 'production', but will have its own database and where I can load up a special config/mymode.rb file, that will set up special constants.

The idea is to implement something like Paypal's sandbox. An environment running just like the normal production application, but where anything goes and nothing costs.

- test - development - production - sandbox

Is this at all possible?

Thanks, Helzer

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It certainly is. Basically you just need to add it to your database.yml. You can also add in the sandbox.rb environment config file (for instance by making a copy of production.rb)

Rein

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Thanks Rein,

I didn't realize it's that simple. Now that I look at it, I see that what makes the development application behave that way is the config.cache_classes=false setting.

Much appreciated, Helzer

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So say I created a new enviroment called 'staging' by creating staging.rb in the environments directory and added a staging section to my database.rb.

Staging would be just like production, however, a test version of it... one step before production. It's on the remote server and everything.

I'm kind of confused on how to deploy my app with capistrano now... Can I set the environment using capistrano or does it always just assume it's production?

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I’ve had to slightly edit the Capistrano deploy scripts anyway. What I’m planning to do is edit them a bit more so that I have a ‘sandbox’ deploy and a production deploy. All you need to do really is copy and edit the restart function to include the name of the environment you want to restart.

Helzer