resque-backtrace

A simple gem to solve a simple problem: when an exception occurs during a Resque job, no backtrace is visibly logged. In production you probably want to use an exception catching service, but in development you might just want to see the backtrace and fix the issue.

Note: I've only tested this with with Resque 1.X---I'm not yet aware if it's compatible with newer versions of Resque.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'resque-backtrace', require: false

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install resque-backtrace

If resque-backtrace is the only error handling strategy you want use, open the file where you initialize Resque (possibly something like config/initializers/resque.rb), and do the following:

require 'resque/failure/backtrace'

Resque::Failure.backend = Resque::Failure::Backtrace

If you want to use multiple error handling strategies you'll need to do something like this (which adds Redis for failures):

require 'resque/failure/backtrace'
require 'resque/failure/multiple'
require 'resque/failure/redis'

failure_backends = [Resque::Failure::Redis]

if Rails.env.development?
  failure_backends << Resque::Failure::Backtrace
end

Resque::Failure::MultipleWithRetrySuppression.classes = failure_backends
Resque::Failure.backend = Resque::Failure::MultipleWithRetrySuppression

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request