The Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Introducing Honeybadger for Elixir
Good news Elixir fans! Honeybadger now supports exception monitoring for Elixir. Let's take a look and see how easy it is to get started.
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By Richard Bishop
- Aug 31, 2015
Avoid these traps when nesting Ruby modules
But buried within Ruby's nesting implementation - and Rails' autoload system - are a few traps that can cause your code to fail in strange and wonderful ways. In this post, we'll discuss the origin of these traps and how you can avoid them.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 26, 2015
Working with Ruby exceptions outside of the rescue block
It's often useful to be able to get the most recent exception, even if your code doesn't control the lifecycle of that exception. In this post we explore a few of the ways to do this.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 25, 2015
Announcing enhanced PagerDuty integration
For over a year now you've been able to route your error notifications to PagerDuty. Now you can send outage notifications as well.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 24, 2015
Mixing code and data in Ruby with DATA and __END__
Did you know that Ruby provides a way for your script to use its own source file as a source of data? It's a neat trick that can save you some time when writing one-off scripts and proofs of concept. Let's check it out!
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 19, 2015
Associative arrays in Ruby...what?
Have you ever had a bunch of data in an array, but needed to do a key/value lookup like you would with a hash? Fortunately, Ruby provides a mechanism for treating arrays as key-value structures. Let's check it out!
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 18, 2015
How I hacked a fitness tracker to wake me - but not my wife - when I get paged
The only thing worse than getting paged in the middle of the night is to also wake up your partner. In this post I show you how you can set up a fitness tracker wristband to silently wake you up the next time you get paged.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 17, 2015
Using lazy enumerators to work with large files in Ruby
Files are just large collections of lines or characters. Lazy enumerators make it possible to to some very interesting and powerful things with them.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 10, 2015
Benchmarking exceptions in Ruby - yep, they're slow.
Just how much slower are exceptions than other flow control mechanisms? In this post we use a simple benchmark to find out.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 6, 2015
Honeybadger now supports causes / nested exceptions
Ruby 2.1 and later support nested exceptions via the Exception#cause method. Now you can view these for any error reported to Honeybadger. This post gives a brief introduction to exception causes in Ruby, and shows you what they look like in the Honeybadger UI.
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By Starr Horne
- Aug 5, 2015
