Idea: Text-only, Markdown-formatted errors

[rstacruz]

Hi,

just thought of an interesting feature. it'd be nice to have Markdown-formatted errors like this:

# NameError at /master/documents
  undefined local variable or method `title' for #<Document:0x0000010ab430d8>

## Code
   app/models/document.rb, line 10:

       8   mount_uploader x
       9   def to_s
    > 10     title || filename
      11   end
      12
      13   def filename

## Backtrace

 * __Document#to_s__ (app/models/document.rb, line 10)
 * __DocumentController#show__ (app/controllers/document_controller.rb, line 50)

How?

• This can be the output when the page is accessed via curl/wget/ajax.
• This can be a comment at the start of the HTML, so I can peek at it when doing "view source".
• This can be copied to the clipboard via some button in the interface.

Why?

• Easy pasting of error info into Github issues, Trello, Pivotal Tracker.
• Readable output for text-only terminals (eg, curl or wget)

I'd be happy to work on this.

[rstacruz]

Related: #79

[haileys]

Seems like an interesting idea. You could probably get away with just adding another template and rendering with that to implement this.

[rstacruz]

Text-only error pages are now served in non-graphical browsers (curl, wget, etc--via checking the HTTP Accept header), AJAX requests, and in the HTML page as a comment at the end.

[haileys]

This has landed in master, closing.