Detect if application was started as HTTP server or not (rake task, rconsole etc)

Question

I\'m using EventMachine and Monetarily to start e TCP server along with my rails application. This is started from config/initializers/momentarily.rb.

Answer 1

Set an environment variable in config.ru file, and use it anywhere in the code to detect if it's executed using a rails server command only.

For e.g.

• File: config.ru

  ENV['server_mode'] = '1'
  

And using it somewhere as:

• File: config/environment.rb

  Thread.new { infinite_loop! }.join if ENV['server_mode'] = '1'
  

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