I'd be keen to hack on extracting babs' logging some time if you're interested.
It'd be a simple job—off the top of my head it's not coupled to the rest of
babushka.
—Ben
On Wednesday, 4 May 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michael Pearson wrote:
> I've been writing a lot of system automation tools lately, and one of the
> things I'm trying to get right is status output.
>
> Generally output looks like:
>
> > Doing thing .. done
> > Doing other thing .. done
> * Hey, your thing is ready
>
> And we've written a tiny "Logger" class to encapsulate "tasks" (thing ..
> done) and "status" messages. It uses the excellent rainbow gem to produce
> coloured output for terminals and non-coloured output when piped to a file.
>
> But I've been thinking about verbosity and task nesting. A flat log output
> doesn't scale well (as anybody who's tried reading tomcat logs can attest) so
> I've been thinking about log indenting. Babushka is an inspiration for this:
> Cucumber.tmbundle { TextMate.app { Found at /Applications/TextMate.app. } √
> TextMate.app not already met. Cloning from
> git://github.com/bmabey/cucumber-tmbundle.git... done. Cucumber.tmbundle met.
> } √ Cucumber.tmbundle
>
> And I'd like to write code that looks like:
> Logger.task("Making a new container") do
> blobs.each do |blob|
> Logger.task("Making new blob #{blob.name}", :verbose => true)
> ...
> end
> end
> end
>
> Before I go and extend our own libraries, does anybody know of a gem that
> already does task-based nested log output?
>
> If not, does anybody have any requests if I end up doing this myself and
> making it into a gem?
>
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> Michael Pearson
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