I’m using Log4r in my rails projects. On log.error an email is sent
using
the EmailOutputter.
I know changed the EmailOutputter to include a global var in the subject
(MDC) since the subject is normally static.
I want to set this var to the exception message, so it is sent as the
subject.
Can anyone tell me how to do this in rails?
Basically:
raise e or some other cause
-> Log4r::MDC.put(‘subject’, e.message)
continue with the exception
I found rescue_from but it just gives it to the handler and then
stops.
My (simple) example was just trying to give you an idea of how to do
what
you were asking using rescue_from.
And note that the log does show that the re-raising worked as expected,
where we did something with the caught exception first (ie write a debug
TEST line to the log) before then re-raising it and letting the rails
env
stack handle it (ie log shows the stacktrace including the orig line
where
the bug is in the code, …).
As for “a better way”, it always depends on what you’re ultimately
trying
to accomplish and the tradeoffs for getting there.
But if you really did want to use rescue_from for any/all
exceptions/errors
that could occur, then at a minimum you’re going to want to make sure
that
what you do with that caught exception (ie your Log4r::MDC… call)
doesn’t
itself result in any exceptions/errors. One way would be to wrap that
work
in a begin … rescue Exception => e2 … end … before then re-raising
the originally caught exception.
All you need to do is re-raise the exception after you’re done using it
in
your rescue_from, so something along the lines of:
$ cat ./app/controllers/foo_controller.rb
…
rescue_from Exception do |e|
# do something with e before re-raising it …
Rails.logger.debug(“TEST: before re-raising … e=#{e.inspect}”)
raise e
end
…
However, this only works for controller actions.
I’ve got some cronjobs in the project (lib folder) as well as a sinatra
app
that is mounted within the rails app.
Is there any way I could catch the exceptions in these parts as well?
Yeah I saw it works, that’s why I wondered about the linked post…
Anyway, I’m just trying to basically get emails that contain the
exception/error message in the subject so it’s easier to sort
if there are many error mails.
Of course the rescue_from method only targets one specific case - the
one
where I get a rails exception.
But I think I cannot do it by monkey patching log4r as rails already
sends
a complete (and formatted) string to
log.error making it hard to extract the relevant message.
I’ll see how I can use it, but I think I can get there somehow
On Friday, November 15, 2013 10:26:10 AM UTC, sol wrote:
I’ve used the above approach now
However, this only works for controller actions.
I’ve got some cronjobs in the project (lib folder) as well as a sinatra
app that is mounted within the rails app.
Is there any way I could catch the exceptions in these parts as well?
For a cronjob type thing it’s up to you to wrap your script with something
that will log the error. My cronjobs normally end up looking like
TaskWrapper(‘some job’) do #work here
end
and elsewhere
def TaskWrapper
begin
yield
rescue Exception => ex #do something with the exception
raise
end
end
I use rescue Exception because for once I think it’s appropriate that
things like SyntaxError are caught so that I can be notified about them
For the sinatra (or even the rails case) you could write a rack
middleware
that would look something like
class ErrorNotifier
def initialize(app) @app = app
end
def call(env)
begin @app.call(env)
rescue Exception => ex #do something with the exception
raise
end
end
end
You could also render an error message if you want to override that.
You might also be interested in the exception handling stuff described
at
