Disqus comments fails to load on localhost?

Question

I would like to use the universal code and have ran into difficulties getting the most basic functionality done.

I would like to create a shortname for test and one for my deployment, which I did from the Disqus admin panel.

Here is the disqus code in my show action:

# inside show.html.erb <%= render raw 'comments' %>  # partial "comments"    <div id="disqus_thread"></div>     <script type="text/javascript">       var disqus_shortname = '<%= Post::DISQUS_SHORTNAME %>';       var disqus_identifier = '<%= @post.id %>';       var disqus_url = '<%= url_for([:blog, @topic, @post])%>';         (function() {             var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;             dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';             (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);         })();     </script>     <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>     <a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a> 

In my model I define Post, I define my short name like so:

  DISQUS_SHORTNAME = if Rails.env.development?                          "dev-shortname".freeze                      else                         "shortname".freeze                      end 

I can confirm the loading spinner is functioning but that is it. Am I missing something obvious? When I try to include only_path: false as a second option in my url_for call, I get an exception stating I have supplied to many arguments to the method. Otherwise my disqus just hangs.

Answer 1

you should set this to make it work:

var disqus_developer = 1; // this would set it to developer mode 

Reference: http://ray247.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/how-to-develop-with-disqus-on-localhost/

Answer 2

None of the solutions above worked for me as of September 2013.

To get it to work I had to add localhost to the "Trusted Domains" list on this page:

http://[disqus_shortname].disqus.com/admin/settings/advanced/

and also use the "Universal Code" found below to embed it into my blog posts:

http://[disqus_shortname].disqus.com/admin/settings/universalcode/

And it works! :)