Rails 3 Sending errors to email

Question

How do I hijack Rails (3) error handling to email errors with full trace to me?

Answer 1

• Hoptoad: http://hoptoadapp.com/pages/home
• ErrorApp: http://errorapp.com/
• ExceptionNotifier: https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification

Answer 2

Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification

Answer 3

Have your considered HopToad?

UPDATE: HopToad is now known as Airbrake

Answer 4

Haven't done it myself yet, but you should be able to use the log4r gem and substitute that for the stock rails logger. This can be done in environment.rb, see for example this blog post.

Then you would instruct log4r to send emails on errors, see documentation