Detect if application was started as HTTP server or not (rake task, rconsole etc)
eventmachine, rake, ruby, ruby-on-rails
Solution
There's not a great way of doing this that I know of. You could copy newrelic's approach (check `discover_dispatcher` in local_environment.rb) which basically has a list of heuristics used to detect if it is running inside passenger, thin, etc.
For passenger it checks
defined?(::PhusionPassenger)
for thin it checks
if defined?(::Thin) && defined?(::Thin::Server)
Problem
I'm using EventMachine and Monetarily to start e TCP server along with my rails application. This is started from `config/initializers/momentarily.rb`. My problem is that it starts also when I run rake tasks, like `db:migrate`. I only want it to start when when I start the HTTP server. Environments won't help, since both the server start and rake tasks are under Development environment. Is there a way of knowing that the application is running the HTTP server as opposed to anything else? Note that is not only rake tasks, the EM starts also if I run the rails console, which is again something not desirable for my case.