Basic tips for Sentry [Ruby]

Sentry is Error Tracking Service which provides cloud service and OSS. This post describes some tips for Sentry(Raven) with Ruby.

😸 Capture Exception

It supports two methods of capturing exceptions:

Raven.capture do
  # capture any exceptions which happen during execution of this block
  1 / 0
end

begin
  1 / 0
rescue ZeroDivisionError => exception
  Raven.capture_exception(exception)
  # You can put optional value
  # Additional context for this event. Must be a mapping. Children can be any native JSON type.
  # Raven.capture_exception(exception, { extra: {'key' => 'value'} })
end

🍣 Reporting Message

Raven.capture_message("Something went very wrong", :attr => 'value')

🎃 More Detail

Please see https://docs.sentry.io/clients/ruby/usage/

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