I tried starting by hand with ruby script/server production and it starts up in development mode:
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment...
For fun I development configured database.yml and then the appserver started, but the result was still the same.
I have been through the How to deploy a Rails application on HostingRails.com turtorial 3 times looking for something I did wrong. I have looked at all the logs and have found no clues.
*** HELP ***
Thanks,
- Rick