How to get notified about Ruby (Rack) errors in Rails 3

Rails
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On a Rails 3.2 production site I have ExceptionNotifier installed, which
sends me mails when something goes wrong. But I have noticed that when
the site genererates a “Ruby (Rack) application could not be started”
error, I do not get notified. How/what do I configure in order to get
notified by mail when this error occurs? Thanks

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On Saturday, August 4, 2012 8:36:59 AM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

On a Rails 3.2 production site I have ExceptionNotifier installed, which
sends me mails when something goes wrong. But I have noticed that when
the site genererates a “Ruby (Rack) application could not be started”
error, I do not get notified. How/what do I configure in order to get
notified by mail when this error occurs? Thanks

As the message implies the app couldn’t be started, so the app isn’t in a
position to tell you about the fact that it encountered an error.
You’ll need to use something external to the app. That could be
something
on your server (monit, nagios etc.) or something external that monitors
your site’s availability (such as pingdom)

If the failure can be logged to rsyslog (I think passenger might be able
to
do this if it can’t start your app) then I believe rsyslog can be
configured to email you.

Fred

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Hi Fred,

thanks for the suggestions. I will look into each of them and hopefully
when of them will suite my needs. Thanks.

Nick