New Exceptional plugin gem.

The Exceptional client is now packaged as a gem to take advantage of versioning, simple installation and easier use outside rails. We've lots of new features planned, installing as a gem will make it easy for you to upgrade.

Once you've created your app on Exceptional, installing is as easy as:

1. Adding this to your environment.rb file

   config.gem 'exceptional', :version => '2.0.0'

2. gem install exceptional

3. exceptional install YOUR-API-KEY

   You will find your api key in your apps dashboard on Exceptional.

4. (Delete the old plugin if you had it installed)

   rm -rf vendor/plugins/exceptional

What else has changed?

We're now using api.getexceptional.com to handle api traffic. Using a separate domain name makes it easier for us to load balance traffic and provide a solid service. We changed the data format a little so that we can capture even more useful information about your errors.

Feedback?

We're always keen to hear your thoughts/ideas to help us make exceptional better. And always looking for an excuse to use the blink tag ;)

Tip for updating your servers

When it came to moving to using the gem, a quick way to install it on all our servers was using cap shell:

cap> sudo gem install exceptional