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user998266
user998266

Reputation: 75

Heroku environment variables specific to production

Does Heroku provide any environment variables that are specific to its production environment, so an app can easily distinguish between development/productions settings?

Right now I am just doing a test for HOME=/Users/myname for the development environment but that would not work if other developers want to work on my app.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 75

Answers (2)

user998266
user998266

Reputation: 75

Ended up just testing to see if the app was running with Gunicorn or on the Flask development server. Still...would be nice if Heroku gave some indication of the different environments. 

if not "gunicorn" in os.environ.get("SERVER_SOFTWARE", ""):
    Config = DevelopmentConfig
else:
    Config = ProductionConfig

Upvotes: 0

rdegges
rdegges

Reputation: 33824

Heroku applications are always in production -- Heroku doesn't distinguish between development and production at all.

Heroku expects you to do development and testing on either your laptop, or another Heroku app completely separate from your production app.

Upvotes: 1

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