Question

In Rails notifications, I am subscribing to “process_action.action_controller”, and would like to add more attributes to the payload. How can I do that?

I have tried using append_info_to_payload, but this seems to do nothing.

module AppendExceptionPayload
  module ControllerRuntime
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern

    protected 

    def append_info_to_payload(payload)
      super
      payload[:happy] = "HAPPY"
    end
  end
end

The subscription and above code is in a Rails engine, so this is where I make the call to add it:

require 'append_exception_payload'

module Instrument
  class Engine < ::Rails::Engine

    ActiveSupport.on_load :action_controller do
      include AppendExceptionPayload::ControllerRuntime
    end

  end
end

Answer 1

After putting up the bounty, I found a solution myself. Rails handles this really cleanly.

Basically, the append_info_to_payload method is meant exactly for this.

So to include session information and signed_in user information I added this to my application_controller.rb:

def append_info_to_payload(payload)
    super
    payload[:session] = request.session_options[:id] rescue ""
    payload[:user_id] = session[:user_id] rescue "unknown"
end