simplelogger

simplelogger is a simple Ruby file & console message logger

• Log messages to file, console, STDOUT, STDERR, ..
• Log levels are standard in addition of few new
• Support uuencoded message logging
• Logs different message severity with different color coding

Install

sudo gem install simplelogger

Getting Started

require 'rubygems'
require 'simplelogger'

options = {:file => 'lof_file_name', options ..}
log = Simplelogger.new(options)
log.info "message"
log.warning "message"
log.error "message"
log.fatal "message"
log.debug "message"
log.notice "message"
log.success "message"
log.fail "message"
log.underscore 'underscore message'

# Print console message with color using Term::Ansicolor 
puts log.color.red 'i am red'

log.stdout 'standard output'
log.stderr 'standard error output'
log._puts 'just puts'
log._print 'just print'

log.close

Options

:file => string
    log file name

:program_name => string
    program name

:enable_debug => boolean
    display and log debug messages, default no logging to console & file

:enable_nocolor => boolean
    disable colorful messages on console, default enabled

:enable_verbose => boolean
    display messages on console (except debug), default messages are only logged to the log file

:enable_uuencode => boolean
    uuencode log messages

:time_format => string
    user time format, e.g. "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S", default set to iso8601

:console_style => string
    'full' -> display full log message on console
    'message' -> display log level + log message on console
    default set to 'full'

Copyright

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 vkhatri (Virender Khatri)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.