[chef] Re: chef-client & exceptions

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, John Merrells 
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 wrote
> Does chef integrate with any exception notification services... like 
> hoptoad?
>
> As I'm writing new recipes I make mistakes that cause chef-client's to barf
> and I only find out about it by going and looking at the log. It'd be nice 
> if the
> exception could be forwarded to me the same way that my application level
> code does it.
>
> How are you folks dealing with this issue?

It doesn't as of yet, although we have plans to support this.  If you
want hoptoad support right now, this will do it:

$ gem install toadhopper

Then change /usr/bin/chef-client to this:

require 'rubygems'

version = ">= 0"

if ARGV.first =~ /^_(.*)_$/ and Gem::Version.correct? $1 then
  version = $1
  ARGV.shift
end

begin
  gem 'chef', version
  load Gem.bin_path('chef', 'chef-client', version)
rescue => e
  require 'toadhopper'
  Toadhopper("YOURAPIKEY").post!(e)
  raise
end

And viola, Toad-hoppered Chef.

Adam

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