Email out of Rescue

musicdenotation · December 10, 2013, 2:34pm

I’m trying to set up a means to automatically send an email from certain
parts of troubled code, that is, very often, code that might appear in
the
Rescue predicate of a begin…rescue, so as to track down issues
remotely.

Surely there must be a gem for such? If not, how might one construct
something like this in code? TIA, RVic

RVic · December 10, 2013, 2:38pm

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:32 AM, RVic [email protected] wrote:

I’m trying to set up a means to automatically send an email from certain
parts of troubled code, that is, very often, code that might appear in the
Rescue predicate of a begin…rescue, so as to track down issues remotely.

Surely there must be a gem for such? If not, how might one construct
something like this in code? TIA, RVic

E-Mail poses a security risk and information leak issue, perhaps try
using a service that offers SSL and make sure to strip information as
it goes into it. There is HoneyBadger (I don’t remember them offering
a free service) and Airbrake (they do offer a limited free account.)
There is also bugsnag but I haven’t really played with them even
though for some reason they keep emailing me.

RVic · December 10, 2013, 2:40pm

I have a file on Github which sends an email on rescuing an error:

github.com

VirtuosoJoel/Toolkit/blob/master/AutoReport.rb


# Class to simplify automated reporting
class AutoReport

  # Bring in the workhorse code
  require_relative 'MechReporter'
  # Simplify date manipulation
  include DateTools
  # Allow access to the Registry
  include RegistryTools
  
  # Provide access to Class contents
  attr_accessor :m, :name, :email_to, :email_bcc, :files, :body, :checkname, :subject, :automation, :test

  # Set up the Class
  def initialize( email_to=Passwords::MyName )
  
    # Reporting tool
    self.m = MechReporter.new

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The method I used to send an email is the “mail” gem, and its usage is
demonstrated around line 556 in this file:

github.com

VirtuosoJoel/Toolkit/blob/master/MechReporter.rb#L556


      
                internal_puts "Completed date range #{ range.first.strftime( '%d/%m/%y' ) } - #{ range.last.strftime( '%d/%m/%y' ) }"
              end
            end.each { |thread| thread.join; ret << thread[:output] }
            
            # Return the combined data
            ret
            
          end
          
          
#
          # Send an email through an email account
          #
          # @param [String, Array<String>] attachments the filename(s) to attach
          # @param [String] subject_var the email subject
          # @param [String, Array<String>] to_ary the "To" email address(es)
          # @param [String] body_var the email body
          #
          
          
def send_email( attachments=[], subject_var='Automated Email', to_ary=Passwords::MyName, body_var='Automated email', bcc_ary = [] )
          
          
  # Standardise email addresses into an array in case a string was passed through

RVic · December 10, 2013, 4:00pm

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Jordon B. [email protected]
wrote:

E-Mail poses a security risk and information leak issue, perhaps try
using a service that offers SSL and make sure to strip information as
it goes into it. There is HoneyBadger (I don’t remember them offering
a free service) and Airbrake (they do offer a limited free account.)
There is also bugsnag but I haven’t really played with them even
though for some reason they keep emailing me.

Datadog is another option, they have a free limited level: 5 hosts, 1
day
retention.

RVic · December 10, 2013, 4:44pm

Thank you all for your replies! This is very helpful.

RVic

RVic · December 10, 2013, 3:30pm

http://smartinez87.github.io/exception_notification/ should do what you
want

RVic · December 11, 2013, 3:54pm

On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 08:32:33 UTC-5, RVic wrote:

I’m trying to set up a means to automatically send an email from certain
parts of troubled code, that is, very often, code that might appear in the
Rescue predicate of a begin…rescue, so as to track down issues remotely.

Surely there must be a gem for such? If not, how might one construct
something like this in code? TIA, RVic

The hosted services are a good first pick - if you need something like
them
but can’t (for security or political reasons) use a third-party service,
I’d recommend trying out Errbit:

Direct-to-email stuff (like the old exception_notification plugin) is
usually sub-optimal: you’ll wind up getting a lot of repeated emails if
your site sees reasonable traffic, making it hard to pick out unique
errors. The services / tools above all can send emails, but they default
to
only notifying you about “new” errors.

–Matt J.