title: phusion passenger not seeing environment variables?
body: <p>We are running ubuntu servers with Nginx + Phusion Passenger for our rails 3.0x apps.</p>
  
  <p>I have an environment variable set in /etc/environment on the test machines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>MC_TEST=true
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I run a console (bundle exec rails c) and output ENV["MC_TEST"] I see 'true'.
  But, if I put that same code on a page ( &lt;%= ENV["MC_TEST"] %> ) it doesn't see anything. That variable does not exist.</p>
  
  <p>Which leads me to question:</p>
  
  <p>1 - What is the proper way to get environment variables into passenger with nginx (not apache SetEnv)?</p>
  
  <p>2 - Why does Passenger not have a proper environment?</p>