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testing ruby: 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0;

About Process Safe Logger

Process Safe Logger supports log rotations in multi-processes safely.

Objective

Ruby's standard Logger class originally have had a problem that it's log rotation function does not work safely in multi process environment. This gem fixes the problem.

The patch is already pull requested to the githb.com:ruby/ruby and will be released with ruby 2.1.0.

Installation

gem install process_safe_logger

Usage

require 'process_safe_logger'
logger = ProcessSafeLogger.new('logfile.log', 3, 1024)

Option parameters are same with Ruby's Logger. See docs.ruby-lang.org:Logger.

Further Reading

  1. sonots:blog : RubyのLoggerはスレッドセーフ(＆プロセスセーフ)かどうか調べてみた (Japanese)
  2. Inter-process locking for log rotation by sonots · Pull Request #428 · ruby/ruby

Contributing

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

License

Same with ruby.