Flowerbox

Flowerbox gives you pretty log output for debugging rails applications

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'flowerbox'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install flowerbox

Usage

Flowerbox extends ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger with the method #flowerbox

It logs the inspected arguments at info loglevel along with the file and line where it was called.

logger.flowerbox([], {})

================================================================================
/Users/ehrenmurdick/projects/flowerbox/test.rb:29:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
{}
================================================================================

By default flowerbox only outputs in the log in development mode. To enable it in test or any other environment, create config/initializers/flowerbox.rb and add

Flowerbox.enable("test")

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request