Run a Rails App in Production Locally.md

Run a Rails App in Production Locally

Steps

• export SECRET_KEY_BASE

  export SECRET_KEY_BASE=`rake secret`

• create db

  # rm -f db/production.sqlite3   # remove old production db if necessary
  RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

• precompile your assets by the following command, which will create a folder public/assets that contains all of your assets.

  # rake assets:clobber           # clobber old assets if necessary
  RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile

• to serve static assets, export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES

  export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true

• run server in production environment.

  RAILS_ENV=production rails s -b 'ssl://localhost:3000?key=/usr/local/certs/localhost.key&cert=/usr/local/certs/localhost.crt'

Links

• rwarbelow/running_app_in_production_locally.markdown