Delayed Job exceptions with Airbrake

gistfile1.rb

# Handle errors with Airbrake
Delayed::Worker.class_eval do
  def handle_failed_job_with_airbrake(job, error)
    handle_failed_job_without_notification job, error

    # rescue if Airbrake fails for some reason
    begin
      Airbrake.notify error
    rescue Exception => e
      Rails.logger.error "Airbrake failed: #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
      Rails.logger.flush
    end
  end
  alias_method_chain :handle_failed_job, :airbrake
end

what is handle_failed_job_without_notification(job, error) ? just a placeholder ?

what is handle_failed_job_without_notification(job, error) ? just a placeholder ?

great question! I haven't looked at this piece of code for, well, 9 years 👍

I guess that it's a method provided by DelayedJob.
This code hooked into the handle_failed_job chain to loop in Airbrake.

Note however, that the DelayedJob version this was written for is also 9 years old, so the method might not exist anymore