How can I detect Heroku's environment?

Question

I have a Django webapp, and I\'d like to check if it\'s running on the Heroku stack (for conditional enabling of debugging, etc.) Is there any simple way to do this? An envi

Answer 1

Read more about it here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars

My solution:

$ heroku config:set HEROKU=1

These environment variables are persistent – they will remain in place across deploys and app restarts – so unless you need to change values, you only need to set them once.

Then you can test its presence in your app.:

>>> 'HEROKU' in os.environ
True