"errbit" is Excellent Error Catcher with Heroku

This article describes errbit which is an error catcher with Heroku and Slack.

🐮 Installation on server

You should open errbit and push “Deploy to Heroku” button.

After deploying it, please set the following environment variables:

# Get repository
$ git clone https://git.heroku.com/APP_NAME.git
$ cd APP_NAME

# Set environemt variable
heroku config:set ERRBIT_HOST APP_NAME.herokuapp.com

🚜 Installation on client

Add the following gems and execute bundle install:

# Error Catcher
gem 'airbrake'

Set a configuration in Errbit, please set the following codes to config/initializers/errbit.rb:

Airbrake.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = 'Errbitにアプリを登録完了するともらえます'
  config.host    = 'example-errbit.herokuapp.com'
  config.port    = 80
  config.secure  = config.port == 443
end

🎂 Manual Notification in app

If you want to notify error manually, please write code like this:

# ...
rescue => ex
  Airbrake.notify(ex)
# ...

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