ActiveSupport::CustomLogger

Adds timestamp, request UUID and parent Process ID to each line of the Rails logger. Works on Rails 3.x & 4.x.

[2014-09-17T16:33:48] [663a7b21] [85324] Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-09-17 16:33:48 -0700
[2014-09-17T16:33:48] [663a7b21] [85324] Processing by RootController#index as HTML
[2014-09-17T16:33:49] [663a7b21] [85324]   Rendered root/index.html.haml within layouts/application (0.1ms)
[2014-09-17T16:33:49] [663a7b21] [85324] Completed 200 OK in 28ms (Views: 27.4ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)

Rails' Tagged Logging works for most cases, but for anything that needs to evaluate more than once per request (like a timestamp) log tags are insufficient. Custom Logger alias_method_chain's methods in ActiveSupport's BufferedLogger (Rails 3.x) or SimpleFormatter (Rails 4.x) in order to get a timestamp on each line in the log.

These three items are currently not configurable as it's version 0.0.1 and I'm making this for internal B/R use.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_support-custom_logger'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_support-custom_logger

TODO

Specs.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/active_support-custom_logger/fork )
  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 a new Pull Request