Question

I have a few pieces of code that I would like to display only in production, for instance, the showing of disqus comments. What is the best way to go about doing that? Currently I have:

<% if RAILS_ENV.eql?('production') %>
    disqus code here
<% end %>

But I am not sure if that’s the best method, or is that it? Seems pretty verbose and I would need this in a few different places in the application.

Answer 1

I’d suggest writing a helper method in your application_helper.rb file:

def render_disqus
    return '' unless Rails.env.production?
    #render disqus stuff here...
end

Then, in your view it gets really simple:

<%= render_disqus %>