Active Record messes with my Logger

Ruby
1

Yes, I know about the hack that AR uses to make the Logger format
friendlier.
The thing is it imposes it’s idea of friendliness in a global scale (as
I remember it was necessary with the 1.8.2 Logger due to the rigidness
of the format). This seriously gets on my nerves.

How can I reinstate my Logger format and apply it to active record?
It is and it’s not really a Rails question, as I only use AR :slight_smile:
Cheers,
V.-

2

I found no clean sollution, but maybe this can help ya:

begin
define = ‘def format_message severity, timestamp, program_name,
message’
default = '( @formatter || @default_formatter ).call ’ +
‘severity, timestamp, program_name, message’

format ||= default

Logger.class_eval [ define, format, ‘end’ ].join(’; ')
end

You can define format beforehand to something like '"#

{ timestamp }: message"’

Per default it’s overwritten with Logger.format_message method

Cheers

Flo

Am 01.12.2006 um 15:26 schrieb Damphyr:

3

Florian Aßmann wrote:

Logger.class_eval [ define, format, ‘end’ ].join(’; ')
end

You can define format beforehand to something like '"#{ timestamp }:

message"’

Per default it’s overwritten with Logger.format_message method

Cheers

Flo

Oh, I found a much cleaner solution:
class MyLogFormatter<Logger::Formatter
MyLogFormat = “[%s] %5s – %s: %s\n”
def call severity,time,progname,msg
MyLogFormat % [format_datetime(time), severity, progname,
msg2str(msg)]
end
end
logger.formatter=MyLogFormatter.new
logger.formatter.datetime_format="%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"

It’s not exactly documented (at least the RDoc in ruby-doc stil contains
the comment about having to hack the Format constant). This way you can
play with the format constant used and not mess with the logger
internals.
Cheers,
V.-