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Exception Notifications (revised)

#104 Exception Notifications (revised)

Oct 20, 2011 | 6 minutes | Debugging, Plugins
Few things are worse than seeing a "Something went wrong" 500 error on your production application. Here I show how to be notified when this happens using exception_notification and mention several other alternatives.
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Gemfile 
gem 'exception_notification'
gem 'letter_opener', group: :development
config/environment/development.rb 
config.middleware.use ExceptionNotifier,
  sender_address: 'noreply@railscasts.com',
  exception_recipients: 'ryan@railscasts.com',
  ignore_exceptions: ExceptionNotifier.default_ignore_exceptions # + [RuntimeError]
  
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :letter_opener