environment variables to configure paths

rubyonrails-core
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Hi, i'm packaging redmine for debian, and i thought it would be nice to make config paths settable by environment variables, like those : config.log_path config.cache_store config.database_configuration_file ActionController::Base.session_options[:tmpdir]

instead of having to patch or ask upstream any future webapp, it would be so nice to configure those variables (or any other typically configurable path) through environment variables like RAILS_LOG RAILS_CACHE RAILS_ETC RAILS_SESSION that's only a proposition.

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I don't really feel that this would be a suitable way of defaulting those settings within rails itself. However you could override them in an initializer yourself which wouldn't require a patch, merely a new file included in the distribution.