# Rails errors and background processes **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-errors-and-background-processes/176989 "2009-10-09T13:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-errors-and-background-processes/176989/1 "2009-10-09T13:21:01Z")
I have a rails application running as a background process using plugin spawn. It works fine, but I do not get any error messages if something goes wrong Anyone knows how to cath error mssages in a background process? Any help would be very much appreciated ---
**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-errors-and-background-processes/176989/2 "2009-10-09T16:17:50Z")
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Hans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have a rails application running as a background process using > plugin spawn. It works fine, but I do not get any error messages if > something goes wrong > Anyone knows how to cath error mssages in a background process? > > Any help would be very much appreciated > > > I like to log many steps of the background process procedure to see where it fails. You can see log entries with this patch: [http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2009/07/rails-spawn-in-production-mode-missing-log-entries/](http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2009/07/rails-spawn-in-production-mode-missing-log-entries/) [http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2009/07/rails-spawn-in-production-mode-missing-log-entries/](http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2009/07/rails-spawn-in-production-mode-missing-log-entries/) Greg – [www.abetaday.com](http://www.abetaday.com)