How do I log the entire trace back of a Ruby exception using the default Rails logger?

Question

I am working on rails project and I am trying to get exceptions to be logged to the rails log files. I know I can call logger.error $! to get the first line of the exception logged to the file. But, I want to get the entire trace stack logged as well. How do I log the entire trace back of an exception using the default rails logger?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/228441/how-do-i-log-the-entire-trace-back-of-a-ruby-exception-using-the-default-rails-l

Answer 1

logger.error $!.backtrace

Also, don't forget you can

rescue ErrorType => error_name

to give your error a variable name other than the default $!.