Password protecting a rails staging environment

Question

I\'m trying to work out what the best way to secure my staging environment would be. Currently I\'m running both staging and production on the same server.

The two

Answer 1

bumping this to help others, like myself as I read this before settling on an similar, but cleaner solution.

# config/environments/staging.rb

MyApp::Application.configure do
  config.middleware.insert_after(::Rack::Lock, "::Rack::Auth::Basic", "Staging") do |u, p|
    [u, p] == ['username', 'password']
  end

 #... other config
end

I wrote a short blog post about it.