Brian T. Cooke

I mentioned that I’d be posting about some of the plugins used on the 12stoneart project. Here’s a nice, short one:

exception_notifier

Tim requested that if the user sees a 500 error, an email be sent to him and me. I wasn’t really sure how to handle this and feared it’d be a tad involved. But of course someone had to have solved this already. One google search later I had the answer: exception_notifier. What a great plugin. It provides a very detailed email including session data, browser info and the exception details. Very handy.

I wish I had this running all throughout development so I could get an email of the exceptions Tim was seeing on the staging server (that’s now my plan for all future projects).

The lesson learned here was: browse the dev.rubyonrails.org plugins regularly :)