Still necessary?

[manuelmeurer]

Now that the Airbrake gem itself supports sending information about the logged in user, is this gem still necessary?

https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake/wiki/Sending-current-user-information

What would be necessary to make Errbit work with the information sent by the regular Airbrake gem? (probably a question to ask in the Errbit repo)

[drewda]

Sounds like this has already been implemented in errbit: errbit/errbit#283

But I have yet to try it myself.

[softcraft-development]

I just tried a new install of errbit (errbit/errbit@7f343a5), airbrake (3.1.17), and airbrake_user_attributes (0.1.6, but note I had to patch it to get it working: https://github.com/softcraft-development/airbrake_user_attributes/commit/152979e6f19666938e1aafae5c678e8a6217d068).

With only the airbrake gem in my gemfile, I didn't get any user information in my errbit install. With airbrake_user_attributes I got lots of user-specific information as I expected.

So, I'd say it's still necessary.