Issue tracking in production via Gitlab Ruby API

It’s so easy for you to track production issues/exceptions with Gitlab. It has super sexy issue board and Issue management UI along with RESTful API. Thankfully we need not write REST API, however Ruby API is sufficient. There is an awesome Ruby Gem written by `@NARKOZ` (https://github.com/NARKOZ/gitlab).

Configuration example:

gem 'gitlab'

# in config/initializers/gitlab_config.rb
Gitlab.configure do |config|
  config.endpoint       = 'https://example.net/api/v3' # API endpoint URL, default: ENV['GITLAB_API_ENDPOINT']
  config.private_token  = 'qEsq1pt6HJPaNciie3MG'       # user's private token or OAuth2 access token, default: ENV['GITLAB_API_PRIVATE_TOKEN']
  # Optional
  # config.user_agent   = 'Custom User Agent'          # user agent, default: 'Gitlab Ruby Gem [version]'
  # config.sudo         = 'user'                       # username for sudo mode, default: nil
end

You can find API for issues here

Example Library I wrote

This should handler the rest. Make sure you include this module in ApplicationController

# in controller/concerns/exception_handler.rb
module ExceptionHandler
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern
  class InvalidRequest < StandardError;  end

  included do
    unless Rails.application.config.consider_all_requests_local
      rescue_from InvalidRequest,
                  NoMethodError,
                  ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid,
                  NameError,
                  ArgumentError, with: :handle_unauthorized_requests

    end
  end

  private
  def handle_unauthorized_requests(error)
    create_issue_in_gitlab(error)
    render 'errors/unauthorized', status: 400, layout: 'static', locals: {error: error}
  end

  def create_issue_in_gitlab(error)
    title = "#{error.class} : #{error.message}"

    description = "## Details\n"
    description << "**DateTime**: #{DateTime.now}  \n"
    description << "**TimeZone**: #{Time.zone}  \n"
    description << "**Environment**: #{Rails.env}  \n"
    description << "**UserID**: #{current_user && current_user.id}  \n"
    description << "**Requested From**: #{request.ip}  \n"
    description << "**Request Referrer URL**: #{request.referrer}  \n"
    description << "**Requested URL**: #{request.url}  \n"

    description << "## Request\n"
    description << "```ruby\n"
    description << "parameters: #{request.filtered_parameters}\n"
    description << "```\n"

    description << "## Session Dump\n"
    description << "```ruby\n"
    description << "#{session_dump}\n"
    description << "```\n"

    description << "## Backtrace\n"
    description << "```ruby\n"
    description << "#{error.backtrace[0..25].join("\n")}\n"
    description << "```\n"

    # TODO Move this task to ActiveJob
    # project_id is integer you get from gitlab for your project
    #  I figured out using
    #    > Gitlab.projects  # in rails console after configuring the gem
    #    this gives array of projects, you will get ID for project
    Gitlab.create_issue(ENV['gitlab_issifix_project_id'], title,
                        {description: description, labels: 'System Generated, Bug, Production'})
  end

  def session_dump
    keys = ['_csrf_token', 'session_id', 'warden.user.user.key', 'warden.user.user.session']
    keys.map { |key| "#{key}: #{session[key]}" }.join("\n")
  end
end

 

Then you should be seeing issues created in your project.

Screenshot of an example Issue