Rack::EnvNotifier

Middleware that displays the custom notification for every html page. Designed to work both in production and in development.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rack-env-notifier'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rack-env-notifier

Usage

This Gem can display a custom notification on every html page. This can be configured like this:

Rack::EnvNotifier.notify = Rails.env.production?

or

Rack::EnvNotifier.notify = true if ["12.34.56.78", "127.0.0.1"].include?(request.remote_ip)

There are several configuration options

Position on screen

The notification uses #env-notifer CSS ID. This can be customized, using custom CSS.

To disable default CSS and use custom configure the initializer:

Rack::EnvNotifier.custom_css = true

And define custom CSS:

#env-notifier {
  font-size: 16px;
}

/* Rack::EnvNotifier.message = 'development' */

#env-notifier.development {
  background: #369;
  color: #fff;
}

/* Rack::EnvNotifier.message = 'watch out! production environment!!!' */

#env-notifier.watch-out-production-environment {
  background: #8a0000;
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Notification message

Rack::EnvNotifier.message = "development mode"

For Ruby on Rails, by default the message it will be the name of the current environment. This can be overriden like so:

case Rails.env
when "development"
  Rack::EnvNotifier.message = "safe environment"
when "staging"
  Rack::EnvNotifier.message = "qa environment"
else
  Rack::EnvNotifier.message = "hot environment"
end

Rails

Here is a sample initializer:

if Rails.env.development?
  Rack::EnvNotifier.notify = true
  Rack::EnvNotifier.message = 'Dev'
end

Contributing

Thanks to our contributors.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Inspired by harleyttd / miniprofiler