How would you skip Laravel Scout if enviroment is not production?

Question

I have an app that I am writing with Laravel. I am still fairly new with the framework and don't understand most of it. I am using Algolia as the search engine with Laravel's Scout. In the models you add use Searchable, a trait, and the records are automatically passed to Algolia, which is cool. I am trying to put a simple statement if (App::environment('local'))" exit scout, just so we are not sending our development data to Algolia. Scout will also throw an exception if I run out of the hacker level of 10,000 records a Algolia.

Answer 1

In your local .env add

SCOUT_DRIVER=null

In production add

SCOUT_DRIVER=algolia

In config/scout.php add

'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER', 'null')

Automatically it will be ignored in local but work in production. This is just a suggestion. Try to adapt it to your specific context.

Answer 2

On your local environment you can call YourModel::disableSearchSyncing(), which will prevent this model from pushing data to Algolia.

The reverse to this method is YourModel::enableSeachSyncing(), but the search is enabled by default, so usually there is no need to use it.

Answer 3

Per the Laravel 5.3 documentation:

1. Set the environment the in the .env file:

   APP_ENV=local
   

2. Determine the current environment:

   $environment = App::environment();
   

3. Check on $environment and return true:

   if (App::environment('local')) {
       // The environment is local
   }
   if (App::environment('local', 'staging')) {
       // The environment is either local OR staging...
   }
   

Answer 4

None of above solution works I suggest you to check in your toSearchableArray() method inside your User Model. If you try to set the SCOUT_DRIVER=null in local environment then you will face an error because your application tends to push to Algolia in any environment.

Try to do this instead:

public function toSearchableArray()
{
    if (! app()->isLocal()) {
        return [
            'username' => $this->username,
            'age'      => (string) $this->age,
            // and so on ...
        ];
    }
}