Errbit: The open source self-hosted error catcher

Errbit is an open source, self-hosted error catcher. It is Hoptoad API compliant so you can just point the Hoptoad notifier at your Errbit server if you are already using Hoptoad.

Errbit may be a good fit for you if:

• Your exceptions may contain sensitive data that you don't want sitting on someone else's server
• Your application is behind a firewall
• You'd like to brand your error catcher
• You want to add customer features to your error catcher
• You're crazy and love managing servers

If this doesn't sound like you, you should probably stick with Hoptoad. The Thoughtbot guys offer great support for it and it is much more worry-free. They have a free package and even offer a "Hoptoad behind your firewall" solution.

Installation

Note: This app is intended for people with experience deploying and maintining Rails applications. If you're uncomfortable with any step below then Errbit is not for you. Checkout Hoptoad from the guys over at Thoughtbot, which Errbit is based on.

Set your local box or server(Ubuntu):

1. Install MongoDB. Follow the directions here, then:

   aptitude update
   aptitude install mongodb
   

2. Install libxml

   apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
   

3. Install Bundler

   gem install bundler
   

Running Locally:

1. Bootstrap Errbit. This will copy over config.yml and also seed the database.

   rake errbit:bootstrap
   

2. Update the config.yml and mongoid.yml files with information about your environment

3. Install dependencies

   bundle install
   

4. Start Server

   script/rails server
   

Deploying:

1. Bootstrap Errbit. This will copy over config.yml and also seed the database.

   rake errbit:bootstrap
   

2. Update the deploy.rb file with information about your server

3. Setup server and deploy

   cap deploy:setup deploy
   

Deploying to Heroku:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone http://github.com/jdpace/errbit.git
   

2. Create & configure for Heroku

   gem install heroku
   heroku create
   heroku addons:add mongohq:free
   heroku addons:add sendgrid:free
   heroku config:add HEROKU=true
   heroku config:add ERRBIT_HOST=some-hostname.example.com
   heroku config:add [email protected]
   git push heroku master
   

3. Seed the DB (NOTE: No bootstrap task is used on Heroku!)

   heroku rake db:seed
   

4. Enjoy!

Upgrading

Note: If upgrading from a version of Errbit that used Notices embedded in Errs please run:

     1. git pull origin master ( assuming origin is the github.com/jdpace/errbit repo )
     2. rake db:migrate

Lighthouseapp integration

• Account is the name of your subdomain, i.e. litcafe for project at http://litcafe.lighthouseapp.com/projects/73466-face/overview
• Errbit uses token-based authentication. Get your API Token or visit http://help.lighthouseapp.com/kb/api/how-do-i-get-an-api-token to learn how to get it.
• Project id is number identifier of your project, i.e. 73466 for project at http://litcafe.lighthouseapp.com/projects/73466-face/overview

Redmine integration

• Account is the host of your redmine installation, i.e. http://redmine.org
• Errbit uses token-based authentication. Get your API Key or visit http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Rest_api#Authentication to learn how to get it.
• Project id is an identifier of your project, i.e. chilliproject for project at http://www.redmine.org/projects/chilliproject

Pivotal Tracker integration

• Errbit uses token-based authentication. Get your API Key or visit http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api to learn how to get it.
• Project id is an identifier of your project, i.e. 24324 for project at http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/24324

TODO

• Add ability for watchers to be configured for types of notifications they should receive

Special Thanks

• Michael Parenteau - For rocking the Errbit design and providing a great user experience.
• Nick Recobra aka oruen - Nick is Errbit's first core contributor. He's been working hard at making Errbit more awesome.
• Relevance - For giving me Open-source Fridays to work on Errbit and all my awesome co-workers for giving feedback and inspiration.
• Thoughtbot - For being great open-source advocates and setting the bar with Hoptoad.

Contributing

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Jared Pace. See LICENSE for details.