diff --git a/app/controllers/sources_controller.rb b/app/controllers/sources_controller.rb
index 6e272e3da..6b86f08fa 100644
--- a/app/controllers/sources_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/sources_controller.rb
@@ -9,14 +9,4 @@ class SourcesController < ApplicationController
       format.xml { render xml: @source.to_h.to_xml(root: "source") }
     end
   end
-
-private
-
-  def rescue_exception(exception)
-    respond_with do |format|
-      format.json do
-        render :json => {:message => exception.to_s, :backtrace => exception.backtrace}, :status => :error
-      end
-    end
-  end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/static/error.json.erb b/app/views/static/error.json.erb
index 2bc0e5059..e2fa831d9 100644
--- a/app/views/static/error.json.erb
+++ b/app/views/static/error.json.erb
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 <% if @error_message %>
 {"success": false, "message": <%= raw @error_message.encode("utf-8", {:invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?"}).to_json %>}
 <% else %>
-{"success": false, "message": <%= raw @exception.to_s.encode("utf-8", {:invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?"}).to_json %>}
+  {
+    "success": false,
+    "message": <%= raw @exception.to_s.encode("utf-8", {:invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?"}).to_json %>,
+    "backtrace": <%= raw @exception.backtrace.to_json %>
+  }
 <% end %>