How to determine if Rails is running from CLI, console or as server?

ruby-on-rails rack rack-middleware
crishoj picture crishoj · Nov 22, 2012 · Viewed 8k times · Source

I have a middleware for announcing my application on the local network app using Bonjour, but it's also announcing the service when Rails is invoked from rake or through the console.

I'd like to exclude these cases, and only use the Bonjour middleware when Rails is running as a server.

The middleware configuration accepts a proc to exclude middlewares under certain conditions using a proc:

config.middleware.insert_before ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::SSL, :exclude => proc { |env| 
  env['HTTPS'] != 'on' 
}

But how do I determine if Rails was invoked from the CLI, console or as a server?

Answer

crishoj picture crishoj · Nov 23, 2012

Peeking at the Rails module using pry reveals that console invocations can be detected like this:

Rails.const_defined? 'Console'

And server invocations like this:

Rails.const_defined? 'Server'

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