Sinatra

Quick Start

Initialize Rollbar with your access token somewhere during startup:

Rollbar.configure do |config|
  config.access_token = 'POST_SERVER_ITEM_ACCESS_TOKEN'
  # other configuration settings
  # ...
end

Then mount the middleware in your app, like:

require 'rollbar/middleware/sinatra'

class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
  use Rollbar::Middleware::Sinatra
  # other middleware/etc
  # ...
end

Note

There is a known conflict between Sinatra and other gems where Sinatra's top-level-binded methods get overriden by other gems (more details here: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra-contrib/issues/111 and https://github.com/rollbar/rollbar-gem/issues/663). This came to attention when using sinatra/namespace and Rollbar.configure. If your top-level-binded methods get overshadowed by other gems, like Rake::DSL.namespace, you will need to redefine the method manually as intended by Sinatra.

Here is an example if you want to use sinatra/namespace:

configure do
  Rollbar.configure do |config|
    ...
  end
  
  # Redefine :namespace to use Sinatra's :namespace method
  self.instance_eval do 
    undef :namespace
    
    define_singleton_method(:namespace) do |*args, &block|
      Sinatra::Delegator.target.send(:namespace, *args, &block)
    end
  end
end

Test your installation

If you're not using Rails, you may first need to add the following to your Rakefile:

require 'rollbar/rake_tasks'

You may also need to add an :environment task to your Rakefile if you haven't already defined one. At a bare minimum, this task should call Rollbar.configure() and set your access token.

task :environment do
  Rollbar.configure do |config |
    config.access_token = '...'
  end
end

To confirm that it worked, run:

$ rake rollbar:test

This will raise an exception within a test request; if it works, you'll see a stacktrace in the console, and the exception will appear in the Rollbar dashboard.

Catching errors when streaming content

Thanks to @troex for reporting this issue and solution to us.

When using a stream, make sure to configure it's errback as follows:

get '/test_stream_error' do
  stream do |out|
    out.errback do
      Rollbar.error($!)
    end

    raise 'OMG!'
  end
end

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