How do I log the entire trace back of a Ruby exception using the default Rails logger?

Question

I am working on rails project and I am trying to get exceptions to be logged to the rails log files. I know I can call logger.error $! to get the first line of the

Answer 1

logger.error $!.backtrace

Also, don't forget you can

rescue ErrorType => error_name

to give your error a variable name other than the default $!.