The Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Ruby's case statement - advanced techniques
Nothing could be simpler and more boring than the case statement. It’s a holdover from C. You use it to replace a bunch of ifs. Case closed. Or is it? Actually, case statements in Ruby are a lot richer and more complex than you might imagine. Let’s take a look.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 15, 2015
Remote debugging with Byebug, Rails and Pow
Byebug is a simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2.x. In this post, we'll discuss how to set up remote debugging with byebug so that you can debug code running in Pow, Unicorn or other application servers.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 15, 2015
How unicorn talks to nginx - an introduction to unix sockets in Ruby
In this post we start out with the basics of unix sockets and finish by creating our own simple Ruby application server which can be proxied by nginx.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 14, 2015
Level-up `rescue` with dynamic exception matchers
When you use a rescue clause in Ruby, you can specify what kinds of exceptions you want to rescue. But what if you want to rescue exceptions by severity? By message? By time of day? In this post we'll discuss how you can create dynamic exception matchers that use your logic to decide if an exception gets rescued.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 13, 2015
Nested errors in Ruby with Exception#cause
It's a common pattern in Ruby to rescue and exception and re-raise another kind of exception. But the original exception isn't lost! You can use Exception#cause to grab it. In this post we show you how.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 8, 2015
Announcing realtime error monitoring for Go
If you're a Go developer, we have some great news: you can now monitor your Go applications for panics and errors with Honeybadger! We've been working hard to create the same great error monitoring experience that our Ruby customers enjoy for the Go community, and we hope you'll love the results.
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By Joshua Wood
- Jul 8, 2015
How to "try again" when exceptions happen in Ruby
Ruby provides a few interesting mechanisms that make it easy to "try again" - though not all of them are obvious or well-known. In this post we'll take a look at these mechanisms and how they work.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 7, 2015
Using TracePoint to explore complex exception behavior in Ruby
Ever wanted to know which method caused an exception - even if the exception was swallowed before you could get your hands on it? You can do all this and more with the magic of TracePoint.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 6, 2015
How to change the process name of your Ruby script as shown by `top` and `ps`
It's super handy to be able to refer to processes by name. But default process names can be pretty cryptic. This post will show you how to set friendly process names, and even how to use the process name to provide status summaries for long running processes like Unicorn.
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By Starr Horne
- Jul 2, 2015
