--- title: The community's hopping all over Hoptoad teaser: Everyone enjoys the toad, here is some toad news! tags: news,web,airbrake author: Tammer Saleh published_on: 2008-09-18 --- Just to let everyone know, I'm expecting that we'll get tired of the toad puns in about 3 more months. So just hold on till then. Since we opened up the API, and put the [notifier on github](http://github.com/thoughtbot/hoptoad_notifier), we've been getting a lot of contributions from the [Hoptoad](http://hoptoadapp.com) user base. ## Notifier plugin that uses Beanstalkd The [Reevoo](http://www.reevoo.com/) team wrote a post about integrating their [exception\_messaging](http://labs.reevoo.com/plugins/exception-messaging) plugin with their [Beanstalk messaging](http://labs.reevoo.com/plugins/beanstalk-messaging) plugin and their [fork of the hoptoad notifier](http://github.com/lukeredpath/hoptoad_notifier/tree/extract_notifier) to queue your exceptions from all your apps and send them to Hoptoad from a centralized server. This is a great idea if your site is built using a federated approach with different applications all talking to each other. ## OS X RubyCocoa app for displaying unresolved errors from Hoptoad ![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-9-18-croak_screenshot.jpg) If you're a mac user (which is somewhere just under 100% of the Rails community), then check out [Croak.app](http://github.com/bricooke/croak-app/tree/master) by [Brian Cooke](http://roobasoft.com/blog/), author of the award winning [rooSwitch](http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch/). It gives you a desktop application that displays your exceptions and plays a sound when new ones arrive. ## Merbtoad? Hopmerb? Merb's hoppin' the TOAD [Joakim Kolsjö](http://rubyblocks.se) took the bull by the horns and ported hoptoad to Merb. If you're a merbivore, you can get the source and begin contributing [on github](http://github.com/joakimk/hoptoad_notifier_merb). ## Hoptoad goes enterprise There are currently two .NET versions of the notifier floating around. One was started by our own [Dan Croak](http://twitter.com/croaky). It's just getting started, and could use a little love from you .NET hackers hiding in the shadows. Again, get the source from [github](http://github.com/dancroak/hoptoad.net/tree/master). The other is from [Brennan Falkner](http://github.com/BFalkner), who posted a single file version [on github](http://github.com/BFalkner/hoptoad_notifier_filter/tree/master). There is also a [Java port](http://github.com/sniflabs/jhoptoad/tree/master) of the notifier, contributed by [SNIF labs](http://www.sniflabs.com/). ## Hoptoad on Heroku Finally, Adam Wiggins of [Heroku](http://heroku.com) posted a howto on [integrating hoptoad into your Heroku apps](http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2008/9/17/23_howto_heroku_hoptoad/). Hoptoad is a breeze to configure and install, but it's great to see more posts like this that walk you through each step. FYI: _Hoptoad/Airbrake was sold to RackSpace and is now called [Airbrake Bug Tracker](http://airbrake.io)_.