# Rails3beta4 and exception notification

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 16, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3beta4-and-exception-notification/191700 "2010-07-16T13:33:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vanderkerkoff)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3beta4-and-exception-notification/191700/1 "2010-07-16T13:33:48Z")

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Hi there

Has anyone got rails3beta4 and exception notification to work?

I can’t ☹

Found Lawrences stuff here

[https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8995/tickets/87-exception-notification-cannot-be-used-with-rails-3-beta-4](https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8995/tickets/87-exception-notification-cannot-be-used-with-rails-3-beta-4)

I can’t even install the gem, let alone apply the patch, bundle install  
says

Could not find gem ‘exception\_notifier (\>= 0, runtime)’ in  
git://github.com/rails/exception\_notification (at master).  
Source does not contain any versions of ‘exception\_notifier (\>= 0,  
runtime)’

booooooo

if anyone has any tops or suggestions I’m all ears

Are we fading out Exception Notification in rails 3? I hope not, it’s  
really handy. I’m going to have a look at hoptoad whilst I wait for any  
help, if I can make that work then EN might be out the window.

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**Author:** ![vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vanderkerkoff)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3beta4-and-exception-notification/191700/2 "2010-07-16T15:06:22Z")

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On 16 Jul 2010, at 13:33, Matt D. wrote:

> says
> 
> Are we fading out Exception Notification in rails 3? I hope not, it’s  
> really handy. I’m going to have a look at hoptoad whilst I wait for  
> any  
> help, if I can make that work then EN might be out the window.

You could also look into Failtale, it’s really neat (and open source).  
Saw the presentation of these guys on the last Arrrrcamp and was quite  
impressed. They probably could use some contributions too from the  
community.

I’m seriously considering throwing out EN soon and replacing it. EN  
was nice when there were no alternatives, but being spammed when  
customers click 20 times or having the app hang if the SMTP server  
goes offline or goes wonky… time to look into something better imo.

[http://failtale.be/](http://failtale.be/)

For Rails/Ruby apps you can use the failtale-reporter gem to send  
errors over automatically.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@vanderkerkoff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vanderkerkoff)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3beta4-and-exception-notification/191700/3 "2010-07-16T15:20:52Z")

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Cheers Peter

I got it to install as a gem in the end like so

gem ‘exception\_notification’, :git =\>  
‘git://github.com/rails/exception\_notification’, :branch =\> ‘master’,  
:require =\> ‘exception\_notifier’

And sticking this into the application.rb is not breaking the site on  
startup

```
config.middleware.use ExceptionNotifier,
    :email_prefix => "[Whatever] ",
    :sender_address => %{"notifier" <removed_email_address@domain.invalid>},
    :exception_recipients => %w{removed_email_address@domain.invalid}

```

Whether it works or not is another matter, I’ll keep you posted 🙂

Peter De Berdt wrote:

> On 16 Jul 2010, at 13:33, Matt D. wrote:
> 
> > says
> > 
> > Are we fading out Exception Notification in rails 3? I hope not, it’s  
> > really handy. I’m going to have a look at hoptoad whilst I wait for  
> > any  
> > help, if I can make that work then EN might be out the window.
> 
> You could also look into Failtale, it’s really neat (and open source).  
> Saw the presentation of these guys on the last Arrrrcamp and was quite  
> impressed. They probably could use some contributions too from the  
> community.
> 
> I’m seriously considering throwing out EN soon and replacing it. EN  
> was nice when there were no alternatives, but being spammed when  
> customers click 20 times or having the app hang if the SMTP server  
> goes offline or goes wonky… time to look into something better imo.
> 
> [http://failtale.be/](http://failtale.be/)
> 
> For Rails/Ruby apps you can use the failtale-reporter gem to send  
> errors over automatically.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Peter De Berdt