Hi Sarah! Rails "injects" a few actions to your server when running in development, and this link takes you to one of them (/rails/info/properties).
In production they're disabled probably to avoid the overhead -- plus the information displayed in there can be very useful for attackers looking for specific Rails versions. Pedro On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Sarah Allen<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > So, I'm using my favorite hosting service in a Ruby on Rails class I'm > teaching. I get the students to post a vanilla rails app on Heroku > for starters and one of them clicks on the link "About your > application’s environment" > > "Why?" she asks, "does it say: The page you were looking for doesn't > exist, when it works in my local environment?" > > "um..." I say, "Rails must be doing something Heroku doesn't allow." > which I consider to be a totally lame answer. > > I'll give a gold star to anyone who can give me a better, more precise > answer. You can see the problem here: http://falling-summer-57.heroku.com/ > > Thanks, > Sarah > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
