---
title: Airbrake gem available
teaser: Hoptoad is now Airbrake and has it's own ruby gem.
tags: news,web,airbrake,open source
author: Harold Giménez
published_on: 2011-08-26
---

Today we are releasing the first generally available version of [the airbrake
gem](http://rubygems.org/gems/airbrake), as part of [the name
change](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/post/7665411707/hoptoad-is-now-airbrake).

We changed the namespace from HoptoadNotifier to Airbrake, so this is a major
version bump that breaks backwards compatibility. Updating is simple:

1. In your Gemfile, replace `hoptoad_notifier` with `airbrake`.
1. In your configuration, use `Airbrake.configure` instead of
   `HoptoadNotifier.configure`. Change the file name to
   `config/initializers/airbrake.rb` while you're at it.
1. If you are calling `HoptoadNotifier.notify` directly, replace that with
   `Airbrake.notify`.
1. If you are calling `notify_hoptoad` directly, replace that with
   `notify_airbrake`.
1. If you are javascript notifier user, replace `<%= hoptoad_javascript_notifier
   %>` with `<%= airbrake_javascript_notifier %>` in your layouts.
1. If you're using capistrano for deploy tracking, change the require from
   `hoptoad_notifier/capistrano` to `airbrake/capistrano`.
1. Rake tasks are also namespaced to airbrake now, so use `rake airbrake:deploy`
   and `rake airbrake:test` instead of their `hoptoad` equivalents.

That's all there is to it! A text editor with global find and replace capability
should make this a breeze. If you are a vim user, I recommend the
[Greplace](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1813) plugin.

Finally, I would like to clarify that your app will not suddenly stop working
any time soon if you don't switch immediately. We will continue to receive error
reports on the old domain for a little while, but it's safer to upgrade to the
new gem. The airbrake gem is where all development will continue going forward
[in its new home on github](https://github.com/thoughtbot/airbrake), and is
therefore where you will get improvements and fixes to the library.

To the brakes!

FYI: _Hoptoad/Airbrake was sold to RackSpace and is now called [Airbrake Bug Tracker](http://airbrake.io)_.