---
title: Hoptoad now supports GitHub integration!
teaser: We've connected Hoptoad to the git repository hosting the application.
tags: news,airbrake
author: Tammer Saleh
published_on: 2009-04-08
---

In the [last installment of the Hoptoad
Chronicles](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/deploy-tracking-added-to-hoptoad), we
introduced the deploy tracking feature.  We also mentioned that this feature
paved the way for a bunch of great improvements we'd be able to roll out.

Like most of the community, we use [GitHub](http://github.com) for all of our
projects.  We figured out that we can use the information gleamed from
Capistrano during the deploy process to integrate GitHub into your error
reports.

### Behold

If you're using the deploy functionality, then you'll see the git revision
listed when you view the deploys for a project.  The revision links straight to
the exact tree that was deployed.

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2009-4-8-Hoptoad___Deploy_history_for_umbrellatoday.jpg_973x440_pixels.jpg)

### But wait!  There's more

Even better, when you view an error that happened while a deploy was active,
you'll see that some of the lines of the backtrace are links.  These point
straight at the exact line in the backtrace on GitHub:

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2009-4-8-skitched-20090408-114319.jpg)

### Extra sugar

Now that we've rolled out deploy tracking, the RAILS_ENV that an error came from
is even more important than it was before.  We've made an improvement there by
changing that text to a link that lets you see just the errors that came from
that environment.

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2009-4-8-Hoptoad___Errors_thumb.jpg?1239216591)

### Above and Beyond

Before we rolled out deploy tracking, we'd gotten many requests for bulk
resolving exceptions.  It was clearly a pain point, but we wanted to wait on a
solution until we fully understood the _reason_ people needed this feature.
Adding deploy tracking was much more effort for us, but serves the end user much
better and didn't add clutter to the UI.

In general, we believe it's better to take the long road and produce a cleaner
and more useful application, than take the easy road and produce something
mediocre.

### Buy Now

Try out a [30 day free trial](http://hoptoadapp.com/account/new) of a HopToad
paid account to make use of these great new features!

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