Getting super_exception_notifier to work - ruby-on-rails

Question

I've installed super_exception_notifier by running:
sudo gem install super_exception_notifier
and then I've tried enabling it in my project (which already has mailing working, since it sends emails for other purposes) like this. On environment.rb I added
# Notification configuration
require 'exception_notifier'
ExceptionNotifier.configure_exception_notifier do |config|
config[:exception_recipients] = %w(info#isitsciencefiction.com)
config[:notify_error_codes] = %W( 404 405 500 503 )
end
and on my application_controller.rb I have:
require 'exception_notifiable'
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include ExceptionNotifiable
Am I missing something? because no matter what error I generate. Either a 404, a route error, division by zero in a controller or in the console, in development or production mode, I get no emails and no error messages or anything at all.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Pablo,
Thanks for pointing out the holes in the documentation. I will setup a blank rails project and then clearly enumerate the steps. I have already updated the Readme in response to the tickets you created on github.
To help with you immediate problem this is how I have it setup, (and it works for me! :)
Not all parts of this are essential to it working, but I'm not editing it (much), so you can see what I have:
I have this in my environment.rb:
config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/middlewares #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/mixins #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/classes #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/mailers #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/observers )
I have an initializer in config/initializers/super_exception_notification.rb
#The constants ($) are set in the config/environments files.
ExceptionNotifier.configure_exception_notifier do |config|
config[:render_only] = false
config[:skip_local_notification] = false
config[:view_path] = 'app/views/errors'
config[:exception_recipients] = $ERROR_MAIL_RECIPIENTS
config[:send_email_error_codes] = $ERROR_STATUS_SEND_EMAIL
#config[:sender_address] = %("RINO #{(defined?(Rails) ? Rails.env : RAILS_ENV).humanize} Error" )
config[:sender_address] = "errors#swankywebdesign.com"
config[:email_prefix] = "[RINO #{(defined?(Rails) ? Rails.env : RAILS_ENV).capitalize} ERROR] "
end
Then in my application.rb I have this:
include ExceptionNotifiable, CustomEnvironments
alias :rescue_action_locally :rescue_action_in_public if Environments.local_environments.include?(Rails.env)
self.error_layout = 'errors'
self.exception_notifiable_verbose = false
self.exception_notifiable_silent_exceptions = [MethodDisabled]
Then I also have this mixin in my app/mixins directory:
module CustomEnvironments
module Environments
def self.local_environments
%w( development test )
end
def self.deployed_environments
%w( production staging )
end
end
end
One other thing, this plugin does not abolish the rails standard which is that things in public are trump. So if you have 404.html in public, it will always get rendered for 404's.
Peter

Answer 2

Maybe it has has something to do with this:
http://github.com/pboling/exception_notification
Email notifications will only occur when the IP address is determined not to be local. You can specify certain addresses to always be local so that you’ll get a detailed error instead of the generic error page. You do this in your controller (or even per-controller).
consider_local "64.72.18.143", "14.17.21.25"
You can specify subnet masks as well, so that all matching addresses are considered local:
consider_local "64.72.18.143/24"
The address "127.0.0.1" is always considered local. If you want to completely reset the list of all addresses (for instance, if you wanted "127.0.0.1" to NOT be considered local), you can simply do, somewhere in your controller:
local_addresses.clear