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Adding an Environment

#72 Adding an Environment

Sep 24, 2007 | 3 minutes |
Rails comes with three environments: development, test, and production. But, you aren't restricted to just these. You can add your own! See how in this episode.
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database.yml 
staging:
  adapter: mysql
  database: store_staging
  user: root
  password:
  host: localhost
environments/staging.rb 
config.log_level = :debug
bash 
mysqladmin create store_staging -u root -p
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=staging
script/server -e staging