Alephant::Logger

Logger functionality for Alephant

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alephant-logger'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install alephant-logger

Usage

require 'alephant/logger'

# Using the standard logger
class IncludesLogger
  include Alephant::Logger

  def calls_logger
    logger.warn "MUCH WARN. WOW."
  end
end

# Sets a logger
class SetsLogger
  include Alephant::Logger

  def calls_logger
    Alephant::Logger.set_logger(CustomLogger.new)
    logger.warn "SUCH CUSTOM. MUCH LOG."
  end
end

AWS CloudWatch Metrics

require "aws-sdk"
require "alephant/logger"
require "alephant/logger/cloudwatch_decorator"

AWS.config(
  :region            => "eu-west-1",
  :access_key_id     => "ACCESS_KEY_ID",
  :secret_access_key => "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY",
  :session_token     => "SESSION_TOKEN"
)

LOGGER = Alephant::Logger::CloudWatchDecorator.new(
  Logger.new("app.log"), "SomeCloudWatchMetricNameSpace"
)

Alephant::Logger.set_logger LOGGER

class Foo
  include Alephant::Logger

  def initialize
    logger.info "some info"
    logger.debug "much debug"
    logger.error "great error"
    logger.warn "so warn"
    logger.fatal "ooh fatal"

    # Without the CloudWatchDecorator the `metric` call is a no-op
    logger.metric({:name => "SomeMetricName", :unit => "Count", :value => 1})
  end
end

Foo.new

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/BBC-News/alephant-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 new Pull Request