From 3b853b04559dff359331a3b06755df935e09fafe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hasan Ramezani <hasan.r67@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:38:52 +0330
Subject: [PATCH] Document GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS (#1425)

---
 docs/gunicorn_ext.py     | 9 +++++++++
 docs/source/run.rst      | 3 +++
 docs/source/settings.rst | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/gunicorn_ext.py b/docs/gunicorn_ext.py
index f2629c48..3350130e 100755
--- a/docs/gunicorn_ext.py
+++ b/docs/gunicorn_ext.py
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ able to be set from a configuration file. The setting name is what should be
 used in the configuration file. The command line arguments are listed as well
 for reference on setting at the command line.
 
+.. note::
+
+    Settings can be specified by using environment variable
+    ``GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS``. All avaiable command line arguments can be used.
+    For example, to specify the bind address and number of workers::
+
+        $ GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS="--bind=127.0.0.1 --workers=3" gunicorn app:app
+        
+    .. versionadded:: 19.7
 """
 ISSUE_URI = 'https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/%s'
 PULL_REQUEST_URI = 'https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/%s'
diff --git a/docs/source/run.rst b/docs/source/run.rst
index 994ecad0..84636102 100644
--- a/docs/source/run.rst
+++ b/docs/source/run.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ Commonly Used Arguments
   adjust the name of Gunicorn process as they appear in the process system
   table (which affects tools like ``ps`` and ``top``).
 
+Settings can be specified by using environment variable
+:ref:`GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS <settings>`.
+
 See :ref:`configuration` and :ref:`settings` for detailed usage.
 
 .. _setproctitle: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setproctitle/
diff --git a/docs/source/settings.rst b/docs/source/settings.rst
index adfbb557..0c399a0c 100644
--- a/docs/source/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/source/settings.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ able to be set from a configuration file. The setting name is what should be
 used in the configuration file. The command line arguments are listed as well
 for reference on setting at the command line.
 
+.. note::
+
+    Settings can be specified by using environment variable
+    ``GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS``. All avaiable command line arguments can be used.
+    For example, to specify the bind address and number of workers::
+
+        $ GUNICORN_CMD_ARGS="--bind=127.0.0.1 --workers=3" gunicorn app:app
 Config File
 -----------