How do you boot a rails app on a remote server into Development? -

i totally apologize being naiive. when deploy production, automatically boots in production mode.

how alternatively boot in development mode?

depends on using run rails application.

• if using passenger apache, set railsenv development in vhost, restart web server. passenger on nginx check here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/users%20guide%20nginx.html#_ruby_on_rails_specific_options
• if using mongrel or thin, has option that. check docs
• if using script/server pass argument: script/server development
• or if using rails server (for rails 3): rails server -e development

often can set environment variable rails_env well, example: rails_env=development rails server