setting twitter gem not to send tweets on my dev and test environment

Question

How do I set up my twitter gem not to send tweets in my dev and test environment?

Also I am using Heroku and I don't know how to tell heroku which app is a test which is the prod ...

I followed your tips and added this in my code:

      if Rails.env.staging? 
        Notifier.send_email(msg)
      elsif Rails.env.production?
        Twitter.update(msg)
      else
        logger.info "JOEL - #msg}"
        Notifier.send_email(msg)
      end

For whatever reason, although I set RACK_ENV= staging and created staging.rb in my environment folder ... I still never managed to get Rails.env.staging? = true ...

I am almost there, but not quite...

any tips,

Joel

Answer 1

To add to Vibhu's answer...

You need to wrap the code in this

if Rails.env.production?
  # Code here will only execute in your production environment
end

And then you need to specify a different environment on Heroku for your Heroku testing / dev server so it knows not to send anything on that specific Heroku server: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/multiple-environments