Rails 3 / Setting Custom Environment Variables

Question

I am trying to create a rails application that assigns one value to a variable when the environment is the development environment, and another value to that same variable w

Answer 1

You can find out the environment like this:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Rails.env
  => "development"

Store the value in a global variable in your config/application.rb for example:

$foo = "something"

You could also assign the variable in your config/environments/ files instead of deciding based ond Rails.env in application.rb. Depends on your situation.