What's the best way to disable a ColdBox module in dev? For example I am using the Sentry module but I don't want it enabled on local dev. I've added this to my

development

environment function

moduleSettings.sentry.enableExceptionLogging = false;

to override the setting from the main

moduleSettings

. The other option (I think) is to append to the

modules.exclude

array (for dev). So wondering what the smart folks do 🙂 Thanks

I don’t consider myself one of these smart folks because I never excluded modules from dev, but what you are suggesting seems to be the easiest route: append it to the array of excluded modules and do this in your dev function eg:

function development(){
    modules.exclude.append("someModule")
}

Another option could be to create an env variable to control whether it's enabled and have that value populate the

enableLogBoxAppender

setting in ColdBox.cfc

I've gone with:

both approaches are good

Some update on this: I disabled sentry in my dev environment, but this was not enough, since I was using logbox as wel, so I had to change it to

function development(){
    moduleSettings.sentry.enableExceptionLogging = false;
    moduleSettings.sentry.enableLogBoxAppender = false;
}

Because I did not want any sentry activity at all in my dev environment now I could also go for:

function development(){
    modules.exclude.append("sentry")
}

I guess both approaches are very effective 🙂 In the second option I don’t have to worry about sentry settings at all.