How to add some extra parameter in the airbrake parameters for JS errors

Question

When we are sending the airbrake error to the airbrake server, by default it includes the controller name and action name.

But the question is that I want to add some extra parameters like username, email of the current user. If anyone has any idea please suggest how to do that?

In my layout application.html:

- if ['development'].include?(Rails.env)
  = airbrake_javascript_notifier
  = render :partial => 'layouts/airbrake_notifier'

and in the partial I have written:

   Airbrake.errorDefaults['name'] = "#{current_user.name}";<br/>
   Airbrake.errorDefaults['email'] = "#{current_user.email}";<br/>
   Airbrake.errorDefaults['phone'] = "#{current_user.phone}";<br/>
   Airbrake.errorDefaults['title'] = "#{current_user.title;<br/>

Answer 1

Not a great solution, but the Airbrake Knowledge Base recommends essentially patching the airbrake gem source of the lib/airbrake/notice.rb file.

def initialize(args)
  ...
  self.parameters          = args[:parameters] ||
                               action_dispatch_params ||
                               rack_env(:params) ||
                               {'username' => current_user.name}

It would certainly be better to have this be configurable without patching source.

What I've done instead is simply add a few pieces of data to the session (current_user.name mainly), since session data is sent with the request. I wouldn't do this for more than a few little pieces of data.

Answer 2

We've just added getting current users into the Airbrake Gem. https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake/wiki/Sending-current-user-information

You'll soon be able to sort by current user in an upcoming redesign of the UI.