How prevent rollbar from reporting errors in the development environment?

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How I can disable the rollbar gem from reporting errors in my development environment? I want to get errors only from staging and production, but I didn't find it in docs on Rollbar's site.

Note that if you disable Rollbar in development with one of the techniques below, then `rake rollbar:test` won't work. You need to enable production mode. — mpoisot, Nov 11 '16 at 21:24

piton4eg · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-28T14:06:26.087

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Put this code into initializers/rollbar.rb:

Rollbar.configure do |config|
  # ...

  unless Rails.env.production?
    config.enabled = false
  end

  # ...
end

edited Mar 28 '17 at 14:06

answered Oct 30 '13 at 06:47

piton4eg

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FYI: not actual anymore. https://github.com/rollbar/rollbar-gem/blob/master/lib/generators/rollbar/templates/initializer.rb#L16-L19 – Filip Bartuzi Sep 11 '15 at 17:52
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@FilipBartuzi The code you referenced only disables rollbar in test. The question asks to disable it in development. – MustModify Sep 20 '15 at 21:25
I don't have sufficient rights to do this but it would be more clear if the above code sample were edited to reflect the full namespace environment where the code should run. Recommend to prepend line: `Rollbar.configure do |config|` and then append the corresponding `end` to the code sample. Conceivably someone's initializer could be empty or absent and rollbar would still function. – Luke Griffiths Mar 21 '17 at 19:12
@LukeGriffiths thansk, added it to answer – piton4eg Mar 28 '17 at 14:06

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '16 at 10:34

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I changed the following in config/initializers/rollbar.rb:

  # Here we'll disable in 'test':
  if Rails.env.test?
    config.enabled = false
  end

to

  # Here we'll disable in 'test' and 'development':
  if Rails.env.test? || Rails.env.development?
    config.enabled = false
  end

answered Jul 19 '16 at 10:34

iheggie

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I'm curious why this isn't the default setup. Who wants dev exceptions sent out? – mpoisot Nov 11 '16 at 21:22

score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 19 '18 at 15:39

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Don't use an if (or unless) statement just to set a boolean. Also, you probably want Rollbar enabled in staging in case you need it.

Rollbar.configure do |config|

  config.enabled = Rails.env.production? || Rails.env.staging?

end

edited Feb 19 '18 at 15:39

ulysses_rex

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answered Aug 01 '17 at 15:02

Tim Scott

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robskrob · Answer 4 · 2016-03-11T17:16:20.310

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I believe the following better answers the question:

if Rails.env.development?
  config.enabled = false
end

This code should be written in config/initializers/rollbar.rb

edited Mar 11 '16 at 17:16

answered Mar 11 '16 at 17:10

robskrob

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 21 '17 at 19:20

The other answers are correct so I am just adding this to reduce confusion about exactly what code is required:

Ensure the following is in config/initializers/rollbar.rb:

Rollbar.configure do |config|
  # ...

  unless Rails.env.production?
    config.enabled = false
  end

  # ...
end

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 05 '18 at 23:07

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I only want Rollbar to report issues in production, so I've done this:

Rollbar.configure do |config|
  # ...
  config.enabled = Rails.env.production?
  # ...
end

answered Feb 05 '18 at 23:07

Turgs

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 16:26

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I use this in my rollbar config.
config/initializers/rollbar.rb

Rollbar.configure do |config|
  # ...

  if Rails.env.in? %w[test development]
    config.enabled = false
  end

  # ...
end

answered Feb 06 '18 at 16:26

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How prevent rollbar from reporting errors in the development environment?

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