How to deploy Rails to a Staging Environment Discussion

Chris,

Great video as usual. One question: when using custom environments, how do you handle Gem's that customize behavior based on Rails.env? For example: Rails.env.production? ? prod_thing : non_prod_thing

If we create a staging environment, that code will fallback to development behaviors.

Thanks for the episode. Why didn't you have to add the secret env variable when deploying to Heroku. Does Heroku know to look the staging master key because you set the RAILS_ENV to stagging?