The console.log gem allows you to use console.log in your Ruby on Rails apps.

I wrote it to solve 2 problems:

1. It's hard to use rails logs for debugging because their either noisy, or completely hidden. Using console.log lets you easily see only log messages in this request.
2. When working on the js for Bugsnag I kept accidentally typing console.log into Rails. Now that works!

Installation

1. Add gem "console.log" to your Gemfile. ruby gem "console.log" # makes console.log available in ruby
2. Bundle install shell bundle install

Usage

In rails you can now use console.log for debugging. This means you don't need to have the rails logs open (which is hard with servers like Pow), because log messages will go to your browser console.

def load_user
  user = User.where(email: 'foo@bar.com')
  console.log user
  user
end

console.log

See the full documentation for console.log, which shows you how to use colour and various other formatting tweaks.

console.warn

If you want a little yellow triangle beside your message, call console.warn instead of console.log.

console.error

If you want your text to be bright red, call console.error instead of console.log.

License

console.log is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.MIT for details. Contributions and Bug Reports welcome!