method

environment

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v7.1.3.2) - 1 note - Class: Rails::Configuration

Method deprecated or moved

This method is deprecated or moved on the latest stable version. The last existing version (v2.3.8) is shown here.

These similar methods exist in v7.1.3.2:

environment() public

Return the currently selected environment. By default, it returns the value of the RAILS_ENV constant.

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# File railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 916
    def environment
      ::RAILS_ENV
    end

July 24, 2008 - (v1.0.0 - v2.1.0)

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Custom environment level constants can be passed in to your rails application (server, console, whatever) like this):

# bash, tcsh, whatever shell
GAMEMODE=pregame script/server

Within rails this constant can be accessed by

ENV['GAMEMODE']
=> "pregame"

ENV['DOES-NOT-EXIST']
=> nil