dmathieu / cylon

Rack middleware and Rails Engine to avoid indexing your application in non-production environments

Well, Hello There!

I am a software engineer with a focus on backend, resilience and observability, currently working at @elastic.

Some of the technologies I work with are Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry. I am also a contributor to Open-Source.

I am writing about software engineering, and food fermentation (fr).

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cylon's Issues

Cylon License

Would you be so kind as to as to add a license to this gem? For example:

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name = "cylon"
  s.license = "MIT"
end

Default placement in Rails middleware stack

Hi, this gem is well made and it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for it!

I tried adding it to my rails 4 app but when I tried requesting my robots.txt in development, I got back the actual file:

$ curl mysite.dev/robots.txt            
User-agent: *
Disallow: /some-path/

I checked rake middleware and Cylon::Rack is listed at the bottom of the stack. I tried manually moving it before ActionDispatch::Static which should be serving the static files out of the /public directory and that seemed to fix it on my staging server (Heroku). Perhaps the Rails engine should attempt to do this automatically?

Strangely, this did not fix it for me locally in development while using the Pow server. When running the server with rails s it did work though. Any ideas?