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

In Rails, ActionController::Rescue deals with it. In my application controller actions, i'm using method log_error from this module to pretty-format backtrace in logs:

def foo_action
  # break something in here
rescue
  log_error($!)
  # call firemen
end