How to ignore Sidekiq exceptions in Airbrake for a rails project.

airbrake.rb

#config/initializers/airbrake.rb

Airbrake.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = 'mySecretKeyGoesHere'
  config.ignore << "CustomSidekiqException" #do not report our custom exceptions to Airbrake
end

custom_sidekiq_exception.rb

#app/models/custom_sidekiq_exception.rb

class CustomSidekiqException < StandardError
  #just make sure this inherits from standard error
  #you can add whatever attributes you want to this class, but don't need to
end

sidekiq.rb

#config/initializers/sidekiq.rb

module WrappedErrors
  class Sidekiq
  
    #call a worker per usual
    #only this time wrap in a begin/rescue block for errors
    #re-raise the error using our custom error type
    def call(worker, msg, queue)
      begin
        yield
      rescue => ex
        raise CustomSidekiqException, ex.message
      end
    end
  end
end


Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
  config.redis = { :url => 'redis://localhost:6379/0', :namespace => 'sidekiq_namespace' }
  config.server_middleware do |chain|
    #add the WrappedErrors module to the sidekiq chain of events
    chain.add ::WrappedErrors::Sidekiq 
  end
end

Sidekiq.configure_client do |config|
  config.redis = { :url => 'redis://localhost:6379/0', :namespace => 'sidekiq_namespace' }
end