Email out of Rescue

[RVic]

I'm trying to set up a means to automatically send an email from certain parts of troubled code, that is, very often, code that might appear in the Rescue predicate of a begin.....rescue, so as to track down issues remotely.

Surely there must be a gem for such? If not, how might one construct something like this in code? TIA, RVic

[Jordon Bedwell]

E-Mail poses a security risk and information leak issue, perhaps try
using a service that offers SSL and make sure to strip information as
it goes into it. There is HoneyBadger (I don't remember them offering
a free service) and Airbrake (they do offer a limited free account.)
There is also bugsnag but I haven't really played with them even
though for some reason they keep emailing me.

[Joel Pearson]

I have a file on Github which sends an email on rescuing an error:
https://github.com/VirtuosoJoel/Toolkit/blob/master/AutoReport.rb

The method I used to send an email is the "mail" gem, and its usage is
demonstrated around line 556 in this file:
https://github.com/VirtuosoJoel/Toolkit/blob/master/MechReporter.rb

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[jsnark]

http://smartinez87.github.io/exception_notification/ should do what you want

[tamouse pontiki]

Datadog is another option, they have a free limited level: 5 hosts, 1 day retention.

 

[RVic]

Thank you all for your replies! This is very helpful.

RVic

[Matt Jones]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 08:32:33 UTC-5, RVic wrote:

I'm trying to set up a means to automatically send an email from certain parts of troubled code, that is, very often, code that might appear in the Rescue predicate of a begin.....rescue, so as to track down issues remotely.

Surely there must be a gem for such? If not, how might one construct something like this in code? TIA, RVic

The hosted services are a good first pick - if you need something like them but can't (for security or political reasons) use a third-party service, I'd recommend trying out Errbit:

https://github.com/errbit/errbit

Direct-to-email stuff (like the old exception_notification plugin) is usually sub-optimal: you'll wind up getting a lot of repeated emails if your site sees reasonable traffic, making it hard to pick out *unique* errors. The services / tools above all can send emails, but they default to only notifying you about "new" errors.

--Matt Jones