Email out of Rescue

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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

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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.

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I have a file on Github which sends an email on rescuing an error:

The method I used to send an email is the "mail" gem, and its usage is demonstrated around line 556 in this file:

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

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

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

RVic

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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:

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