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  <h2 id="label-Overview">Overview</h2>
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- <p><strong>EnhancedErrors</strong> is a pure Ruby gem that enhances exception messages by capturing and appending variables and their values from the scope where the error was raised.</p>
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+ <p><strong>EnhancedErrors</strong> is a pure Ruby gem that enhances exceptions by capturing variables and their values from the scope where the error was raised.</p>
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  <p><strong>EnhancedErrors</strong> leverages Ruby’s built-in <a href="https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.1.0/TracePoint.html">TracePoint</a> feature to provide detailed context for exceptions, making debugging easier without significant performance overhead.</p>
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  <span class='id identifier rubyid_require'>require</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&#39;</span><span class='tstring_content'>enhanced_errors</span><span class='tstring_end'>&#39;</span></span>
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  <span class='id identifier rubyid_require'>require</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&#39;</span><span class='tstring_content'>awesome_print</span><span class='tstring_end'>&#39;</span></span> <span class='comment'># Optional, for better output
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  </span>
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- <span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_enhance!'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#enhance!-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.enhance! (method)">enhance!</a></span></span>
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+ <span class='comment'># Enable capturing of variables at exception at raise-time. The .captured_variables method
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+ </span><span class='comment'># is added to all Exceptions and gets populated with in-scope variables and values on `raise`
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+ </span>
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+ <span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_enhance_exceptions!'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#enhance_exceptions!-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.enhance_exceptions! (method)">enhance_exceptions!</a></span></span>
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  <span class='kw'>def</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_foo'>foo</span>
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  <span class='ivar'>@myinstance</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='int'>10</span>
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  <span class='id identifier rubyid_foo'>foo</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='ivar'>@myinstance</span> <span class='op'>/</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_myvar'>myvar</span>
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  <span class='kw'>rescue</span> <span class='op'>=&gt;</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_e'>e</span>
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- <span class='id identifier rubyid_puts'>puts</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_e'>e</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_message'>message</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_puts'>puts</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_e'>e</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_captured_variables'>captured_variables</span>
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  <p>&lt;img src=“./doc/images/enhanced-spec.png” style=“height: 369px; width: 712px;”&gt;&lt;/img&gt;</p>
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+ <h1 id="label-RSpec+Setup">RSpec Setup</h1>
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+ <p>The simplest way to get started with EnhancedErrors is to use it for RSpec exception capturing. To get variable output into RSpec, the approach below enables capturing, but also gives nice output by formatting the failure message with the variable capture.</p>
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+ <p>The advantage of this approach is that it is only active for your spec runs. This approach is ideal for CI and local testing because it doesn’t make any changes that should bleed through to production–it doesn’t enhance exceptions except those that pass by during the RSpec run.</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby">
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+ <span class='const'>RSpec</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_configure'>configure</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_config'>config</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='comment'># add these config changes to your RSpec config to get variable messages
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+ </span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_config'>config</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_before'>before</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='symbol'>:suite</span><span class='rparen'>)</span> <span class='kw'>do</span>
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+ <span class='const'>RSpec</span><span class='op'>::</span><span class='const'>Core</span><span class='op'>::</span><span class='const'>Example</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_prepend'>prepend</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="Enhanced.html" title="Enhanced (module)">Enhanced</a></span></span><span class='op'>::</span><span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="Enhanced/Integrations.html" title="Enhanced::Integrations (module)">Integrations</a></span></span><span class='op'>::</span><span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="Enhanced/Integrations/RSpecErrorFailureMessage.html" title="Enhanced::Integrations::RSpecErrorFailureMessage (module)">RSpecErrorFailureMessage</a></span></span><span class='rparen'>)</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_config'>config</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_before'>before</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='symbol'>:example</span><span class='rparen'>)</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid__example'>_example</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_start_rspec_binding_capture'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#start_rspec_binding_capture-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.start_rspec_binding_capture (method)">start_rspec_binding_capture</a></span></span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_config'>config</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_after'>after</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='symbol'>:example</span><span class='rparen'>)</span> <span class='kw'>do</span> <span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_example'>example</span><span class='op'>|</span>
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+ <span class='id identifier rubyid_example'>example</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_metadata'>metadata</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='symbol'>:expect_binding</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_stop_rspec_binding_capture'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#stop_rspec_binding_capture-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.stop_rspec_binding_capture (method)">stop_rspec_binding_capture</a></span></span>
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <h2 id="label-Minitest">Minitest</h2>
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+ <p>Untested as of yet, but enhance_exceptions!(override_messages: true) is likely to work.</p>
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+ <p>If anyone wants to look into an integration implementation like RSpec, it would be welcomed. With a more targeted approach like the RSpec one, exceptions could be captured and modified only during test time, like the RSpec approach. This would be advantageous as it wouldn’t modify the exception message itself, but still makes the variable output available in test messages.</p>
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+ <h2 id="label-Enhancing+.message">Enhancing .message</h2>
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+ <p>EnhancedErrors can also append the captured variable description into the Exception’s .message method output if the override_messages argument is true.</p>
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+ <p>This can be very convenient as it lets you capture and diagnose the context of totally unanticipated exceptions without modifying all your error handlers.</p>
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+ <p>The downside to this approach is that if you have expectations in your tests/specs around exception messages, those may break. Also, if you are doing something with the error messages, like storing them in a database, they could be <em>much</em> longer and that may pose an issue.</p>
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+ <p>Ideally, use exception.captured_variables instead.</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"><span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_enhance_exceptions!'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#enhance_exceptions!-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.enhance_exceptions! (method)">enhance_exceptions!</a></span></span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='label'>override_messages:</span> <span class='kw'>true</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>
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  <h2 id="label-Features">Features</h2>
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  <ul><li>
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  <p><strong>Pure Ruby</strong>: No external dependencies, C extensions, or C API calls.</p>
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- <p><strong>Lightweight</strong>: Minimal performance impact, as tracing is only active during exception raising.</p>
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  <p><strong>Customizable Output</strong>: Supports multiple output formats (<code>:json</code>, <code>:plaintext</code>, <code>:terminal</code>).</p>
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- <p><strong>Flexible Hooks</strong>: Redact or modifying captured data via the <code>on_capture</code> hook.</p>
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+ <p><strong>Flexible Hooks</strong>: Redact or modifying captured data via the <code>on_capture</code> hook. Update the final string with on_format.</p>
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  <p><strong>Environment-Based Defaults</strong>: For Rails apps, automatically adjusts settings based on the environment (<code>development</code>, <code>test</code>, <code>production</code>, <code>ci</code>).</p>
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  <p><strong>Capture Types</strong>: Captures variables from the first <code>raise</code> and the last <code>rescue</code> for an exception by default.</p>
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  <p><strong>No dependencies</strong>: EnhancedErrors does not <strong><em>require</em></strong> any dependencies–it uses <a href="https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print">awesome_print</a> for nicer output if it is installed and available.</p>
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+ <p><strong>Lightweight</strong>: Minimal performance impact, as tracing is only active during exception raising.</p>
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  <p>EnhancedErrors has a few big use-cases:</p>
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  <ul><li>
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  <p><strong>Catch Data-driven bugs</strong>. For example, if, while processing a 10 gig file, you get an error, you can’t just re-run the code with a debugger. You also can’t just print out all the data, because it’s too big. You want to know what the data was the cause of the error. Ideally, without long instrument-re-run-fix loops. If your logging didn’t capture the data, normally, you’d be stuck.</p>
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- <p><strong>Debug</strong> a complex application erroring deep in the stack when you can’t tell where the error originates</p>
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+ <p><strong>Debug</strong> a complex application erroring deep in the stack when you can’t tell where the error originates.</p>
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- <p><strong>Faster TDD</strong> - Often, you won’t have to re-run to see an error–you can go straight to the fix.</p>
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+ <p><strong>Reduce MTTR</strong> Reduce mean time to resolution.</p>
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  <p><strong>Faster CI -&gt; Fix loop</strong>. When a bug happens in CI, usually there’s a step where you first reproduce it locally. EnhancedErrors can help you skip that step.</p>
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- <p><strong>Faster debugging</strong>. In general, you can skip the add-instrumentation step and jump to the fix.</p>
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+ <p><strong>Faster TDD</strong>. In general, you can skip the add-instrumentation step and jump to the fix. Usually, you won’t have to re-run to see an error.</p>
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  <p><strong>Heisenbugs</strong> - bugs that disappear when you try to debug them. EnhancedErrors can help you capture the data that causes the bug before it disappears.</p>
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+ <p><strong>Cron jobs</strong> and <strong>daemons</strong> - when it fails for unknown reasons at 4am, check the log and fix–it probably has what you need. Note that</p>
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+ <pre class="code ruby"><code class="ruby"><span class='comment'># For a rails app, you may put this in an initializer, or spec_helper.rb
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+ </span><span class='const'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html" title="EnhancedErrors (class)">EnhancedErrors</a></span></span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_enhance_exceptions!'><span class='object_link'><a href="EnhancedErrors.html#enhance_exceptions!-class_method" title="EnhancedErrors.enhance_exceptions! (method)">enhance_exceptions!</a></span></span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='label'>override_messages:</span> <span class='kw'>true</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>
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  <p><code>enabled</code>: Enables or disables the enhancement (default: <code>true</code>).</p>
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  <p>EnhancedErrors comes with predefined skip lists to exclude sensitive or irrelevant variables. By default, the skip list is used to remove a lot of framework noise from Rails and RSpec. You can add additional variables to the skip list as needed:</p>
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- <p><strong>Default Behavior</strong>: By default, EnhancedErrors returns the first <code>raise</code> and the last <code>rescue</code> event for each exception. The <code>rescue</code> exception is only available in Ruby 3.2+ as it was added to TracePoint events in Ruby 3.2.</p>
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  <p>The captured data includes a <code>capture_event</code> field indicating whether the data was captured during a <code>raise</code> or <code>rescue</code> event. By default, EnhancedErrors returns the first <code>raise</code> and the last <code>rescue</code> event for each exception, providing a clear trace of the exception lifecycle.</p>
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