specify an environment in rails 3 app with thin

Question

I'm using thin to run my rails app on ec2. How do I specify that my ec2 instance is test or prod in thin? Is thin really a good choice for running rails app in production? It's not gonna be a high volume app at least at first.

Answer 1

You can pass the desired environment to thin with either -e production on the command-line or environment: production in your YAML config-file.