What

The slimmer open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant

Motivation

I wanted to use, maintain and improve Errbit, but I found the code hard to maintain. So instead of starting completely from scratch, I decided to fork Errbit and make it easier to maintain.

What's different?

In general, FAR fewer features.

• No notification service integrations
• Login with email and password only
• No issue tracker integrations
• Simpler data model
• No backwards compatibility with older Airbrake API versions (including Hoptoad)
• No RSS or iCal support
• English only
• No watchers
• Modern Rubocop w/ stricter rules

Should you use this?

Maybe. If all you need is error reporting, it's fantastic.

Pros

• Faster
• Easier setup
• Less code
• Easy to make changes or add features
• Feature: Automatically merge duplicate errors with different names
• Feature: Stays under MongoDB.com's free tier by discarding older instnaces of errors

Cons

• Missing features

What's next?

• Continue to delete code
• Continue to delete gems
• Continue to update gems
• Switch from HAML to plain ERB
• Upgrade to Rails 8
• Upgrade to Ruby 3.4
• Upgrade to ES2025
• I might switch to Postgres

Who

This is a fork of Errbit. Shout out to the original authors!