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

Here's how I would do it:

http://gist.github.com/127708

Here's the ri documentation for Exception#backtrace:

http://gist.github.com/127710

Note that you could also use Kernel#caller, which gives you the full trace (minus the curent frame) as well.

http://gist.github.com/127709

Also - Note that if you are trying to catch all exceptions, you should rescue from Exception, not RuntimeError.