Self-Hosted Error Tracking for Rails 8.1 + SolidQueue: A Complete Setup Guide

How to set up rails_error_dashboard with SolidQueue — capturing errors from controllers AND background jobs, with optional database isolation. Rails 8.1 ships with SolidQueue as the default background job backend. No more Redis. No more Sidekiq licensing questions. Just your database. But here's a question nobody talks about: what happens when your background jobs fail? Sure, SolidQueue tracks failed executions. But do you get a dashboard? Severity classification? Trend charts? Notifications? Priority scoring? Not out of the box. I built rails_error_dashboard to solve exactly this — a self-hosted, open-source error tracking gem that works entirely inside your Rails process. No external services, no monthly fees, no data leaving your servers. In this post, I'll walk you through setting it up with a Rails 8.1 app using SolidQueue, including the optional separate database configuration for production-grade isolation. What We're Building By the end of this guide, you'll have: Automatic err