Rails 2.3.x and production mode

Is it necessary to add ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production' in rails 2.3.x environment.rb? It's not there by default anymore.

Pål Bergström wrote:

Is it necessary to add ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production' in rails 2.3.x environment.rb? It's not there by default anymore.

It's only necessary if you can't set environment variables on the system you're running on.

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