Hosted rails exceptions
Every Rails developer knows the ExceptionNotification plugin. It sends you an email when stuff breaks in your Rails application. Handy, but doesn’t work with Rails 2.1 Also, it’s a pain when the same error comes in dozens of times (users tend to reload often when a 500 comes up). Enter Hoptoad.
This is a nifty online application that catches your Rails errors and presents them in a manageable list. Reoccurring errors are folded automatically. And you get email notifications also, or RSS if you prefer that. Super handy!
The only problem with this is that they are going to charge money of course, and that sucks. Also, ‘my’ data is out of my hands, so I will never use this for sensitive information.
Other than that it works great and I am using it for L8R already.
(via RubyWeb.nl)
joost – Glad you like Hoptoad thus far. There’s more features coming soon, hopefully making data portability easier if you want to get your data out. Are you also thinking security? Do you want all connections to be over SSL? If so, file a ticket in our Lighthouse account, I don’t think anyone’s requested that yet.
Hey, thanks for the kudos. One thing, though: It’s a completely free service. We may charge for it in the future, but we don’t have any immediate plansfor that, and we’ll have *plenty* of advance notice in the event that we do.
@ Jon: that is certainly good to hear. I tend to think there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and I certainly try to always build apps myself with a ‘free / paid-for’ difference. Servers cost money too
That said, I am recommending Hoptoad for all apps I’m responsible for.
@ Dan: SSL would be cool (though not strictly required) I’m thinking more about one app plainly has restrictions, business-wise, about any data that is inside the app. It’s not allowed to leave the server, so I cannot use any hosted solutions, cool as they are!