Rails catches exceptions within a ShowExceptions middleware and renders out a HTML error - in some cases you want an error be rendered as JSON for APIs consuming the app in question. This does just that.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'show_json_exceptions'

And then execute:

$ bundle

There is nothing to do here, the railtie hooks in the middleware automatically. You can confirm the middleware has been loaded by running:

rake middleware

When an error occurs in your application you will see a response similar to the following:

{
	"successful": false,
	"result": {},
	"error_messages": ["Exception: No route matches [GET] \"/non/existent\"]
}

If your application is running in development mode you will also see a backtrace in your error_messages array:

{
	"successful": false,
	"result": {},
	"error_messages": [
		"Exception: No route matches [GET] \"/non/existent\",
		{
			"backtrace": [
			# ... Backtrace lines here as an array...
			]
		}
	]
}

Yes well, this is really a simple gem.. in fact you can just add the module and the config.middleware statements yourself, but I wanted to wrap this in a gem for reuse. If you really think it needs tests then bug me and I'll see what I can do...

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request