Hoptoad on rails test works but I don't get notified about exceptions...

Question

I set up hoptoad on my prod server and ran rake hoptoad:test. I get the notifier in my hoptoad interface so it seems to work great. But then I forgot to migrate my database after my last deploy so I got a "ActionView::TemplateError" in my production log. This caused a 500 so I feel like HopToad should have notified me about this. Have any hoptoad users out there had this issue?

As a side note, is it standard practice to have your deploy process automatically migrate your production database?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As a side note, is it standard practice to have your deploy process automatically migrate your production database?

The choice belongs to you. It's a standard practice to use Capistrano for deploying Rails apps. With capistrano you can run

cap deploy # to deploy the app
cap deploy:migrate # to migrate the app
cap deploy:migrations # to deploy and migrate at the same time

You can decide whether to execute the commands separately or not.

About hoptoad, I'm sorry but I don't have a Rails app with hoptoad installed to test against.

Answer 2

Did you have any exception notification or logging plugins installed before hoptoad? If so, make sure you remove them. I had minor issues setting up hoptoad because of this interference.

Make sure your production server is set to the RAILS_ENV "production". Development doesn't trigger hoptoad.