assaf/vanity — pull request #180 by inkredabull (2014-01-22 17:35:47+00:00)
Title: Add section on collecting data under development

I lost some time and feel like this was buried too far down in the docs:

"There’s generally no need to collect metric and experiment data outside
production environment. Under Rails, Vanity turns collection on only if
the environment name is “production”. You can control this from
config/environments by setting Vanity.playground.collecting to
true/false. When collection is off, Vanity doesn’t connect to the
database server, so there’s no need to set a database configuration for
these environments."
- http://vanity.labnotes.org/rails.html

And wound up having to use these resources to figure out exactly what to do:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vanity-talk/RhqxlqyWN-4/FIbXzeKyooYJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vanity-talk/opVRJN0KDgk