RAILS_ENV and mod_fcgid Options

[mta]

We have setup several high security ruby on rails sites using mod_fcgid.

Within these sites, we need to set the variable RAILS_ENV to development, staging, and production on the respective servers. Because we use svn to manage and populate the sites, it is not desirable to set RAILS_ENV in config/environment.rb, or even in dispatch.fcgi. RAILS_ENV needs to be set at the FastCGI level.

We are having difficulty accomplishing this. According to information received in a reply to a post to the mod_fcgid mailing list, this is due to Apache suexec's restriction of the environment variables that can be set.

However, we are able to accomplish this by replacing mod_fcgid with mod_fastcgi - not sure why.

Has anyone here experienced similar problems with mod_fcgid and Ensim and found a solution?

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

Michael

[mta]

As I was explaining to someone earlier, all variables beginning with HTTP_ are accepted by suexec.

Therefore adding the following line to config/environment.rb appears to be a workable solution:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= ENV['HTTP_RAILS_ENV']

I then changed my Apache directive to state DefaultInitEnv HTTP_RAILS_ENV staging