The Honeybadger Developer Blog

Tag exceptions automatically to unlock great power

If you use Honeybadger, you may have come across "tags" in the UI. Tags are the key that unlocks a lot of advanced functionality in Honeybadger.

For example, imagine that there are a couple of errors that you want to procrastinate on. You can tag...

New search features

Today we're releasing a powerful new set of search features not only to help you find errors inside of Honeybadger, but to tell Honeybadger which errors you want to be notified of.

If there's one thing we've learned while building Honeybadger, it...

Link to your user admin

Our latest feature saves you a click or two — and you're going to love it. You probably already know that Honeybadger can let you know which users were impacted by an error in your Rails application. By using the context feature you can send custom...

How we implemented in-browser alerts with Pusher, Rails and Pnotify

Today we're announcing the launch of a fun feature: In-browser notifications. Once enabled on the Notifications tab of the Project Settings page, you'll get a popup notification in the corner of the browser window when one of the events occurs that...

Honeybadger helps Less Accounting stay bug-free this tax season.

LessAccounting has been in production since 2007 and it was started in Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2. Yeah, it’s been around for a while.

Even though its simple accounting software, it’s still large and complex with lots of moving pieces and different parts...

Honeybadger partners with Cloud 66

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Cloud 66 - a service to provision, deploy and scale Ruby apps on your own servers on any cloud.

Since launching last year, they’ve taken the Ruby world by storm. They have an amazing product. People are...

A better method of handling multistep forms in rails

If there ever was a task that seemed straightforward from the outside, but then turned out to be really complicated when you got into it, a multi-step form is it.

Why are multi-step forms so hard? The main challenge seems to be validating partial...

How do Ruby Gems work?

One of the things that makes working with Rails so nice is that for any common programming need---authorization, site administration, ecommerce, you name it---someone smarter than you has likely coded up the solution for your problem and packaged it...

Vim tips that will change your life

Vim is objectively the best code editor there is. [Editor's note: Opinions are those of the author. Honeybadger remains neutral in the vim/emacs/sublime holy war]

No matter how much you know about Vim, there's still more to learn. Here are a few features...

Introducing feedback

Here at Honeybadger we're big fans of eating our own dog food. We were all contractors when we started Honeybadger, and still use our own software regularly to monitor our personal projects. One of the main benefits of this is that it's not difficult...