why environment.rb is useless?

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Dear all, I'm a newbie in ROR.

my environment: ruby 1.8.5 rails 2.0.2 Lighttpd scgi_rails 0.4.3 working in development model.

questions: 1. I made some changes to config/environment.rb, and restart lighttpd, but the changes didn't take any effect. I then even change RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.0.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION to RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '8.0.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION the application start as normal. Finally, I deleted environment.rb, but the application runs as well! What happened?

2. in the development model , I once deleted log/development.log because it's too large. then, I made a new development.log file with only a line. Strange thing is that, development.log then never change any more.

Anyone can explain the above questions? Thanks a lot!

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Sounds like you're not running the code you thing you are running (in particular perhaps you didn't restart what is actually processing your rails requests ?) How are you starting your rails app?

Fred

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Thanks for your information. I start my rails app using Lighttpd and scgi, as following: /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf ruby usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service config/scgi.yaml And this is the content of scgi.yaml: :port: 9999 :password: brA4gP6Xahk.6 :logfile: log/scgi.log :control_url: druby://127.0.0.1:8999 :config: config/scgi.yaml :disable_signals: true :env: development :host: 127.0.0.1 I'm thinking maybe there's something wrong with scgi.

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Thanks for your information. I start my rails app using Lighttpd and scgi, as following: /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf ruby usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service

I know nothing about scgi, but I'd guess that the think you need to be
restarting is the scgi_service, not lighttpd

Fred