I came across Hoptoad recently. Hoptoad is basically a webservice with an API that you can post error data to. It then stores the data and presents it to you in a nice web interface, and optionally sends you e-mail alerts in such a fashion that it doesn’t just unintelligently flood your inbox.

It was originally designed to be used with Rails apps, but I saw that there was also a Merb plugin. Not wanting my favourite web framework to be left out, I made a Hoptoad notifier for Ramaze with the help of manveru (the Ramaze lead dev).

Install via Rubygems:

gem install hoptoad-notifier-ramaze --source http://purepistos.net

And usage is dead easy; just two lines:

require 'hoptoad-notifier' Ramaze::Helper::HoptoadNotifier.trait[ :api_key ] = 'your-hoptoad-project-api-key'

I’m already using it with my own Ramaze applications. Enjoy!

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