Hi All.
The content covered in ‘Creating Rails Environments’ often seems like painful practices as the application is growing.
The actual problems I have experienced are listed below:
- Often there are differences in the settings of
staging.rbandproduction.rbby mistake, leading to behavioral differences between the production environment and the staging environment, which can be time-consuming to investigate. -
if Rails.env.production?, causing a behavioral discrepancy between the staging environment and the production environment, where things work fine in the staging environment but have problems in the production environment. - etc.
I think it would be a good idea to include a link to The Twelve-Factor App as a reference for people who are developing production-quality applications in Rails, don’t you?
For example, a TIP block like the following:
TIP: For more reliable and larger applications, consider using environment variables instead of `staging.rb` as described here to deal with differences between environments.
The Twelve-Factor App's [III. Config](https://12factor.net/config) will help you as a good reference.
