If you are working with a relatively up-to-date Ruby on Rails stack, chances are you would be using Phusion Passenger to deploy your application. Although passenger makes it extremely easy to deploy and restart your app, it also added a bit more complication when managing the Apache configuration files. The Passenger Pane (for Mac only) helped alleviate this problem by providing a nice little visual panel in your Mac’s Preference Pane:
The nifty little add-on allows you to easily add a new Rails project, set it to development or production mode, and also restart it. It’s great if you are not sure/forgot where all the virtual host files are for your apache configuration.
As with all things in life, nothing is perfect. In this case, I work on a project with multiple environments: development, staging, preprodstaging, and production just to name a few. The passenger pane was great when you just had to choose between development or production but what do you do if your desired environment is named something else? Don’t sweat, apparently there’s a simple little trick to customize your configuration file exactly to your liking even if the pane does not offer those options. To do so, simply select the project your want to edit from the project list and then drag the it to your favorite text editor on the dock, in this case, Textmate.Now that the file is opened in the editor, edit to your heart’s content, save, restart your passenger instance for the project and you are ready to see your updated changes!
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