I’m using mod_rails with capistrano and multi-stage (qa, staging, production), and wrote this workaround so that the RAILS_ENV could be set correctly in each stage. Mod_rails sets RAILS_ENV once in the global server conf file, but I needed it set once for each environment: qa, staging, and production. I tried setting ENV['RAILS_ENV] in each file [...]
mod_rails set RAILS_ENV variable to QA, Staging, or Production