I added timestamps to my mongrel logs by adding these lines to config/environment.rb:
class Logger def format_message(severity, timestamp, progname, msg) time = timestamp.getutc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S") "\n#{time}:#{severity.to_s.upcase}:#{$$}:#{msg}" end end It logs messages like this: Processing MyController#my_method (for 127.0.0.1 at 2007-12-29 14:37:54) [POST] 20071229133754:INFO:23386: Session ID: d7022e387306cc4e5fea107080014bf1 20071229133754:INFO:23386: Parameters: {"action"=>"my_method", "controller"=>"my", "id"=>"1"} 20071229133754:DEBUG:23386:ID = 1 The process id turned out to be extremely useful to debug some weird things my application started doing when moved from the single mongrel development environment to a multi mongrel one in production. Furthermore, sometimes the logs from two or more requests get mixed together (I guess that it can't be helped) and the process id helps to connect a log line to its request. Paolo -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users