Installing AppSignal for Ruby

Please follow the installation guide first, when adding a new application to AppSignal.

Requirements

Before you can compile the AppSignal gem make sure the build/compilation tools are installed for your system. Please check the Supported Operating Systems page for any system dependencies that may be required.

Installing the gem

We recommend you install and manage the AppSignal gem dependency with Bundler.

Add the following line to your Gemfile.

# Gemfile
source "https://rubygems.org"
 
gem "appsignal"

Then run bundle install to install the gem.

To install AppSignal in your application we recommend you run the appsignal install command. Please provide it with your Push API key to configure it properly.

bundle exec appsignal install YOUR_PUSH_API_KEY

This will present you with an installation script that can integrate automatically in some frameworks and gems and will allow you to configure AppSignal.

For more information on how to integrate AppSignal into your application see the integrations documentation to see what steps are necessary.

Uninstall

Uninstall AppSignal from your app by following the steps below. When these steps are completed your app will no longer send data to the AppSignal servers.

1. In the Gemfile of your app, delete the gem "appsignal" line.

2. Run bundle install to update your Gemfile.lock with the removed gem state.

3. Remove any AppSignal configuration files from your app.

   • Configuration file location: config/appsignal.yml

4. Remove any system environment variables from your development, staging, production, etc. hosts.

   • Environment variables prefixed with APPSIGNAL_

   • Environment variable APP_REVISION

5. Commit, deploy and restart your app.

   • This will make sure the AppSignal servers won't continue to receive data from your app.

6. Optional: Make sure no appsignal-agent processes are running in the background.

   • Check the output of ps aux | grep appsigal-agent and kill the processes still running.

7. Finally, remove the app on AppSignal.com.