Add Bugsnag to your Rack based projects.
Add the bugsnag gem to your Gemfile:
bundle add bugsnag
To identify your app in the Bugsnag dashboard, you’ll need to configure your Bugsnag API key. You can find your API key when creating a project in your Bugsnag dashboard, or later from your project settings page.
To set your API key in your Rack app, add the following code to your config.ru file:
require 'bugsnag'
Bugsnag.configure do |config|
config.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
end
Alternatively, you can set the BUGSNAG_API_KEY environment variable.
If you’d like to configure Bugsnag further, check out the configuration options reference.
To automatically capture unhandled exceptions, you’ll need to enable the Bugsnag Rack middleware:
use Bugsnag::Rack
At this point, Bugsnag should be installed and configured, and any unhandled exceptions will be automatically detected and should appear in your Bugsnag dashboard.
Reporting handled exceptions can be accomplished as follows:
begin
raise 'Something went wrong!'
rescue => exception
Bugsnag.notify(exception)
end
It can often be helpful to adjust the severity or attach custom diagnostics to handled exceptions. For more information, see reporting handled errors.
Sometimes after catching and notifying a handled exception you may want to re-raise the exception to be dealt with by your standard error handlers without sending an automatic exception to Bugsnag.
This can be accomplished by setting a skip_bugsnag property on the exception to true as follows:
begin
raise 'Something went wrong!'
rescue CustomException => exception
Bugsnag.notify(exception)
exception.skip_bugsnag = true
# Now this won't be sent a second time by the exception handlers
raise exception
end
As well as a full stacktrace for every exception, Bugsnag will automatically capture the following diagnostic data:
In order to quickly reproduce and fix errors, it is often helpful to send additional application-specific diagnostic data to Bugsnag. This can be accomplished using a before notify callback as follows:
Bugsnag.before_notify_callbacks << lambda {|report|
report.add_tab(:diagnostics, {
product: current_product.name
})
}
For more information, see the customizing error reports reference.
In order to correlate errors with customer reports, or to see a list of users who experienced each error, it is helpful to capture and display user information on your Bugsnag dashboard.
You can set this information using a before notify callback as follows:
Bugsnag.before_notify_callbacks << lambda {|report|
report.user = {
email: current_user.email,
name: current_user.name,
id: current_user.id
}
}
For more information, see reporting handled errors.
Bugsnag can track the number of “sessions” that happen in your application. This enables Bugsnag to provide and compare stability scores between releases to help you understand the quality of your releases. This functionality is disabled by default, but can be enabled through the configuration:
Bugsnag.configure do |configuration|
configuration.auto_capture_sessions = true
end
Using this option, Bugsnag will report a session each time a request is made to the server.
If you want control over what is deemed a session, rather than using the auto_capture_sessions option, you can call Bugsnag.start_session when appropriate for your application.
By sending your application version to us when you release a new version of your app, you’ll be able to see which release each error was introduced or seen in.
Ensure you’ve set your app version within the application:
Bugsnag.configure do |config|
config.app_version = '1.3.0'
end
Set up a build tool integration to enable linking to code in your source control provider from the releases dashboard, timeline annotations, and stack traces.
If you use Capistrano to release your apps, check out the Capistrano release tracking guide
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