RedisSyslog

RedisSyslog is a simple ruby gem that allows ruby to log directly to redis in a high performance environment. We do rely on redis-rb, so go grab a copy if you haven't already! We originally wrote for Fittr® because our remote scripts needed to be easily checked to see if they were working or not. We now deploy RedisSyslog as a general purpose logging utility where our many services are able to concurrently log to.

Let's get you started real quick.

1. Include the gem in your Gemfile

   source "https://rubygems.org"
   gem 'redis_syslog'
   

2. Initalize an object. Or as many as you'd like! Thread safety, hurray!

   #Create a redis-rb intsance
   @redis = Redis.new
   

Create an instance of RedisSyslog

@logger = RedisSyslog.new redisrb: @redis, namespace: "com.fittr.periodic"

3. Profit
 ```ruby
#Write a new entry
@logger.write "This is my message"

#Get last 1 entry
@logger.last_n_entries(1) #[{:time=>TimeClass, :message => "This is my message"]

#Delete all entries
@logger.delete!

That's it. That's the entire API.

How is it stored? Simple. Each namespace uses the one key with a redis sorted set. The key follows this format.

redis_syslog://#{namespace}