If you are running something like Google Analytics on your website, you probably don’t want its associated JavaScript code to appear in your web browser while you’re developing (it would skew your statistics). In Rails, it is incredibly simple to block off a segment of markup for specific environments by using the Rails.env variable.
If you are using Passenger, your rails environment is set to ‘production’ by default, making it very easy to do something like this:
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[…] Conditional Statements Let’s go a step further. Suppose we have Google Analytics and only want the JavaScript to run when our site has been deployed to production (I covered a similar technique earlier this year using Ruby on Rails). […]
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