Shog

(Also check scorpion for a light-weight IoC container)

Simple colored logging for rails 4 and 5 apps.

There are plenty of logging frameworks for making tags (like timestamp, log level, etc.) more colorful - but what about the details in the line of text? What about the HTTP method used to make the request? What about the render times?

Shog adds colors to highlight context and make it easier to pick out the important parts of the message. Unformatted logs like this

become easy to ready and process logs like this

Using Shog

Just add the following to your Gemfile to enable shiny output logs.

gem 'shog'

Shog comes built in with some sane defaults for rails apps. But you can customize the output to match additional log message by your app, or to use different options in production.

To change the defaults, add shog.rb to your config/initializers folder

Shog.configure do
  if ::Rails.env.production?
    reset_config!
    timestamp
  end

  match /execution expired/ do |msg,matches|
    # Highlight timeout errors
    msg.red
  end
end

See Shog::Formatter#configure for more configuration options.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/phallguy/shog/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Paul Alexander