Re: [Rails] Configure Rails application per run and not per enviroment

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Phil Ostler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I've got a Rails 3 application with some functionality I've written that
> I only wish to be active if I've specified it to be active for that
> application start alone.

> Ideally a command-line switch would work great...
>
>    rails server -run_my_functionality=true
>
> ... but I can't see anyway of making this work in Rails as it simply
> throws out my custom argument as unknown.

Set as an environment variable, e.g.
prompt% run_my_functionality=true rails s

Then it's available in an initializer, environment.rb or wherever as

ENV['run_my_functionality']

HTH!
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