Setting Rails Environment Locally

Question

Currently, the rails environment for my local machine and the development stack are the same (development)

I'd like to have certain error handling notifications go out when people get an error on the development server, but not locally.
To do this, I'd like to set the rails env on people's local machines to local or something like that.

How would that work?

See this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2369511/how-to-create-a-new-environment-in-ruby-on-rails — Justin M, Dec 24 '14 at 17:55
Isn't `development` same as local? May be you need to rename what you call the `development stack`. — Prakash Murthy, Dec 24 '14 at 18:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '14 at 18:32

Rails has three default environments: DEVELOPMENT, TEST, PRODUCTION.

You can create your own environment, which is a good solution for what you're asking.

You can choose your own environment name, create your own environment settings, etc.:

To do this, create an environment file:

config/environments/foo.rb

And you'll likely want to add a database connection by editing this file:

config/database.yml

I suggest not using the name LOCAL because it's a misnomer.

Some teams choose explicit names, such as DEVELOPMENT_WITH_ERROR_NOTIFICATIONS.

Some teams choose to keep DEVELOPMENT for the typical local developer machines, because this matches the typical Rails documentation; the teams name the development server environment something meaningful such as QA, DEMO, ALPHA, INTEGRATION, etc.

Setting Rails Environment Locally

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