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# Rails

## How do I access the Rails console?

1. Add your SSH key to your Hatchbox web server.
2. SSH into your web server: `ssh deploy@x.x.x.`
3. cd into the app's current directory: `cd myapp/current`
4. Run `bundle exec rails c` to open the Rails console.

## How do I deploy a Staging application?

You'll need to do a couple things:

* Set your Hatchbox App's `RAILS_ENV` environment variable to `staging`
* Copy the production environment config to staging`cp config/environments/{production,staging}.rb`
* Update any other config files to include staging. Common ones you will want to make sure are configured:
  * `config/cable.yml`
  * `config/secrets.yml`
* Commit and push these changes to git
* Deploy to Hatchbox (consider using a staging branch for all staging code)