Can't force Rails into production environment via Passenger/Nginx

Question

I\'m having trouble getting a Rails app to run in the production environment via Phusion Passenger on Nginx/Ubuntu. According to the docs, the environment is controlled by the

Answer 1

Or try just removing 'config.ru' altogether. Nginx is smart about rails apps, and config.ru is not necessary for them.

Answer 2

Workaround found at http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/browse_thread/thread/f91cd54bd379ad26/0a510133a080daac

Add to config.ru:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ENV['RACK_ENV']  if !ENV['RAILS_ENV'] && ENV['RACK_ENV']