Frederick Cheung wrote: > probably because activerecord requires activesupport and activesupport > does > > http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/669fd84910586d4c791b6f5bf4320f68ac7845aa/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/logger.rb >
For what it's worth, I share the original questioners general unhappiness with Rails default logging format. It's possible to customize that without too much code, although somewhat more confusing and under-documented than one might wish, and also seems to change slightly from one Rails version to the next, for whatever reasons the precise hooks into Rails logging mechanisms seem to be somewhat unstable. Here's how I customize logging in a Rails 2.1.2 app, choosing to use the Rails2 default "BuferredLogger" for what (I assume) is better efficiency in disk writes, but with my own output formats. Anyone feel free to let me know if there's a better way, or if this is easier in subsequent Rails versions. But it's not too hard (once you figure it out, which took me a bit of playing around). In my lib directory, a sub-class of the BufferedLogger that actually accepts a formatter, as the standard BufferedLogger (at least in 2.1.1) oddly does not: http://umlaut.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/umlaut_logger.rb Then in environment.rb, set the logger and it's formatter: require_dependency 'umlaut_logger' severity_level = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.const_get(config.log_level.to_s.upcase) log_file = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "log", "#{RAILS_ENV}.log") our_logger = UmlautLogger.new(log_file, severity_level) our_logger.formatter = lambda do |severity_label, msg| time_fmtd = Time.now.strftime("%d %b %H:%M:%S") preface = "[#{time_fmtd}] (pid:#{$$}) #{severity_label}: " # stick our preface AFTER any initial newlines msg =~ /^(\n+)[^\n]/ index = $1 ? $1.length : 0 return msg.insert(index, preface) end config.logger = our_logger -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
