Bugsnag Notifier for Ruby

The Bugsnag Notifier for Ruby gives you instant notification of exceptions thrown from your Rails, Sinatra, Rack or plain Ruby app. Any uncaught exceptions will trigger a notification to be sent to your Bugsnag project.

Bugsnag captures errors in real-time from your web, mobile and desktop applications, helping you to understand and resolve them as fast as possible. Create a free account to start capturing exceptions from your applications.

Contents

• How to Install
• Sending Custom Data With Exceptions
• Sending Non-Fatal Exceptions
• Configuration
• Bugsnag Middleware
• Deploy Tracking
• EventMachine Apps

How to Install

1. Add the bugsnag gem to your Gemfile

   gem "bugsnag"

2. Install the gem

   bundle install

3. Configure the Bugsnag module with your API key.

   In rails apps, put this code to a new file at config/initializers/bugsnag.rb

   Bugsnag.configure do |config|
     config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
   end

   If you don't configure the api_key, the Bugsnag module will read the BUGSNAG_API_KEY environment variable.

4. Rack/Sinatra apps only: Activate the Bugsnag Rack middleware

   use Bugsnag::Rack

Sending Custom Data With Exceptions

It is often useful to send additional meta-data about your app, such as information about the currently logged in user, along with any exceptions, to help debug problems.

Rails Apps

In any rails controller you can define a before_bugsnag_notify callback, which allows you to add this additional data by calling add_tab on the exception notification object.

class MyController < ApplicationController
  # Define the filter
  before_bugsnag_notify :add_user_info_to_bugsnag

  # Your controller code here

  private
  def add_user_info_to_bugsnag(notif)
    # Add some app-specific data which will be displayed on a custom
    # "User Info" tab on each error page on bugsnag.com
    notif.add_tab(:user_info, {
      name: current_user.name
    })
  end
end

Other Ruby Apps

In other ruby apps, you can provide lambda functions to execute before any Bugsnag.notify calls as follows. Don't forget to clear the callbacks at the end of each request or session.

# Set a before notify callback
Bugsnag.before_notify_callbacks << lambda {|notif|
  notif.add_tab(:user_info, {
    name: current_user.name
  })
}

# Your app code here

# Clear the callbacks
Bugsnag.before_notify_callbacks.clear

Exceptions with Meta Data

If you include the Bugsnag::MetaData module into your own exceptions, you can associate meta data with a paticular exception.

class MyCustomException < Exception
  include Bugsnag::MetaData
end

exception = MyCustomException.new("It broke!")
exception.bugsnag_meta_data = {
  :user_info => {
    name: current_user.name
  }
}

raise exception

You can read more about how callbacks work in the Bugsnag Middleware documentation below.

Sending Non-Fatal Exceptions

If you would like to send non-fatal exceptions to Bugsnag, you can call Bugsnag.notify:

Bugsnag.notify(RuntimeError.new("Something broke"))

You can also send additional meta-data with your exception:

Bugsnag.notify(RuntimeError.new("Something broke"), {
  :username => "bob-hoskins",
  :registered_user => true
})

Rake Integration

Bugsnag can automatically notify of all exceptions that happen in your rake tasks. In order to enable this, you need to require "bugsnag/rake" in your Rakefile, like so:

require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)
require 'rake'
require "bugsnag/rake"

Bugsnag.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
end

YourApp::Application.load_tasks

NOTE: We also configure Bugsnag in the Rakefile, so the tasks that do not load the full environment can still notify Bugsnag.

Standard Ruby Scripts

If you are running a standard ruby script, you can ensure that all exceptions are sent to Bugsnag by adding the following code to your app:

at_exit do
  if $!
    Bugsnag.notify($!)
  end
end

Configuration

To configure additional Bugsnag settings, use the block syntax and set any settings you need on the config block variable. For example:

Bugsnag.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = "your-api-key-here"
  config.use_ssl = true
  config.notify_release_stages = ["production", "development"]
end

###api_key

Your Bugsnag API key (required).

config.api_key = "your-api-key-here"

###release_stage

If you would like to distinguish between errors that happen in different stages of the application release process (development, production, etc) you can set the release_stage that is reported to Bugsnag.

config.release_stage = "development"

In rails apps this value is automatically set from RAILS_ENV, and in rack apps it is automatically set to RACK_ENV. Otherwise the default is "production".

###notify_release_stages

By default, we will notify Bugsnag of exceptions that happen in any release_stage. If you would like to change which release stages notify Bugsnag of exceptions you can set notify_release_stages:

config.notify_release_stages = ["production", "development"]

###auto_notify

By default, we will automatically notify Bugsnag of any fatal exceptions in your application. If you want to stop this from happening, you can set auto_notify:

config.auto_notify = false

###use_ssl

Enforces all communication with bugsnag.com be made via ssl.

config.use_ssl = true

By default, use_ssl is set to false.

###project_root

We mark stacktrace lines as inProject if they come from files inside your project_root. In rails apps this value is automatically set to RAILS_ROOT, otherwise you should set it manually:

config.project_root = "/var/www/myproject"

###app_version

If you want to track which versions of your application each exception happens in, you can set app_version. This is set to nil by default.

config.app_version = "2.5.1"

###params_filters

Sets the strings to filter out from the params hashes before sending them to Bugsnag. Use this if you want to ensure you don't send sensitive data such as passwords, and credit card numbers to our servers. Any keys which contain these strings will be filtered.

config.params_filters << "credit_card_number"

By default, params_filters is set to ["password", "secret"]

###ignore_classes

Sets for which exception classes we should not send exceptions to bugsnag.com.

config.ignore_classes << "ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid"

You can also provide a lambda function here to ignore by other exception attributes or by a regex:

config.ignore_classes << lambda {|ex| ex.message =~ /timeout/}

By default, ignore_classes contains the following:

[
  "ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound",
  "ActionController::RoutingError",
  "ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken",
  "CGI::Session::CookieStore::TamperedWithCookie",
  "ActionController::UnknownAction",
  "AbstractController::ActionNotFound"
]

###ignore_user_agents

Sets an array of Regexps that can be used to ignore exceptions from certain user agents.

config.ignore_user_agents << %r{Chrome}

By default, ignore_user_agents is empty, so exceptions caused by all user agents are reported.

###proxy_host

Sets the address of the HTTP proxy that should be used for requests to bugsnag.

config.proxy_host = "10.10.10.10"

###proxy_port

Sets the port of the HTTP proxy that should be used for requests to bugsnag.

config.proxy_port = 1089

###proxy_user

Sets the user that should be used to send requests to the HTTP proxy for requests to bugsnag.

config.proxy_user = "proxy_user"

###proxy_password

Sets the password for the user that should be used to send requests to the HTTP proxy for requests to bugsnag.

config.proxy_password = "proxy_secret_password_here"

###logger

Sets which logger to use for Bugsnag log messages. In rails apps, this is automatically set to use Rails.logger, otherwise it will be set to Logger.new(STDOUT).

###middleware

Provides access to the middleware stack, see the Bugsnag Middleware section below for details.

Bugsnag Middleware

The Bugsnag Notifier for Ruby provides its own middleware system, similar to the one used in Rack applications. Middleware allows you to execute code before and after an exception is sent to bugsnag.com, so you can do things such as:

• Send application-specific information along with exceptions, eg. the name of the currently logged in user,
• Write exception information to your internal logging system.

To make your own middleware, create a class that looks like this:

class MyMiddleware
  def initialize(bugsnag)
    @bugsnag = bugsnag
  end

  def call(notification)
    # Your custom "before notify" code

    @bugsnag.call(notification)

    # Your custom "after notify" code
  end
end

You can then add your middleware to the middleware stack as follows:

Bugsnag.configure do |config|
  config.middleware.use MyMiddleware
end

You can also view the order of the currently activated middleware by running rake bugsnag:middleware.

Check out Bugsnag's built in middleware classes for some real examples of middleware in action.

Deploy Tracking

Bugsnag allows you to track deploys of your apps. By sending the source revision or application version to bugsnag.com when you deploy a new version of your app, you'll be able to see which deploy each error was introduced in.

Using Capistrano

If you use capistrano to deploy your apps, you can enable deploy tracking by adding the following line to your app's deploy.rb:

require "bugsnag/capistrano"

Using Rake

If you aren't using capistrano, you can run the following rake command from your deploy scripts.

rake bugsnag:deploy BUGSNAG_REVISION=source-control-revision BUGSNAG_RELEASE_STAGE=production

The bugsnag rake tasks will be automatically available for Rails 3 apps, to make the rake tasks available in other apps, add the following to your Rakefile:

require "bugsnag/tasks"

Configuring Deploy Tracking

You can set the following environmental variables to override or specify additional deploy information:

• BUGSNAG_RELEASE_STAGE - The release stage (eg, production, staging) currently being deployed. This is set automatically from your Bugsnag settings or rails/rack environment.

• BUGSNAG_API_KEY - Your Bugsnag API key. This is set automatically from your Bugsnag settings in your app.

• BUGSNAG_REPOSITORY - The repository from which you are deploying the code. This is set automatically if you are using capistrano.

• BUGSNAG_BRANCH - The source control branch from which you are deploying the code. This is set automatically if you are using capistrano.

• BUGSNAG_REVISION - The source control revision for the code you are currently deploying. This is set automatically if you are using capistrano.

• BUGSNAG_APP_VERSION - The app version of the code you are currently deploying. Only set this if you tag your releases with semantic version numbers and deploy infrequently.

For more information, check out the deploy tracking api documentation.

EventMachine Apps

If your app uses EventMachine you'll need to manually notify Bugsnag of errors. There are two ways to do this in your EventMachine apps, first you should implement EventMachine.error_handler:

EventMachine.error_handler{|e|
  Bugsnag.notify(e)
}

If you want more fine-grained error handling, you can use the errback function, for example:

EventMachine::run do
  server = EventMachine::start_server('0.0.0.0', PORT, MyServer)
  server.errback {
    EM.defer do
      Bugsnag.notify(RuntimeError.new("Something bad happened"))
    end
  }
end

For this to work, include Deferrable in your MyServer, then whenever you want to raise an error, call fail.

Reporting Bugs or Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the github issues page for this project here:

https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-ruby/issues

Contributing

• Fork the notifier on github
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Run the tests with rake spec and make sure they all pass
• Make a pull request
• Thanks!

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License

The Bugsnag ruby notifier is free software released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details.