Four questions about Rails (console, seed file, environment variables, precompiling assets)

Assuming you’re on Rails 4, have you tried:

# Feel free to add this line to e.g. ~/.bashrc so you don't have to type it all the time.
export RAILS_ENV=production

bin/rails console
bin/rake db:version

and so on?

The rails in your path may be different from the one used by your app; bin/rails should get you the right one.

when you say you’re in your “app” directory what does it look like, what subfolders, to make sure it’s the right directory… <br>if you want to set environment variables I’d probably set them globally, like in /etc/profile file. HTH.

in home/username I created a new directory ‘app’ where the rails app is stored (and where I might store others), so now I have home/username/app. How do I set them in that /etc/profile file? <br> <br>Would I for example just do this at the bottom of the file? <br> <br>GMAIL_USERNAME=‘me@gmail.com’ <br> <br> <br>Do you have any idea about the other questions, how to seed data or run the rails console? running the console on a remote server is very handy, as it lets you alter and view production data etc