Getting time to display with ruby Logger

Ruby
#1

Hey guys,

I am having trouble displaying log messages with timestamps. My simple
code looks like:

require ‘logger’

logger = Logger.new("/tmp/tmp.log")

logger.level = Logger::DEBUG
logger.datetime_format = “%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”

logger.info “Testing!”

All I get in my /tmp/tmp.log is:

$ tail -f /tmp/tmp.log

Logfile created on Mon Jul 13 19:42:20 -0700 2009 by /

Testing!

How, do I get to display something like:

I, [2008-03-18T17:09:29.216000 #2020] DEBUG – : Testing

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Harnish

#2

Hi,

You could try
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html

regards,
Vikas Sarin

#3

Vikas Sarin wrote:

Hi,

You could try
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html

regards,
Vikas Sarin

That’s not what I am looking for. I want to use the Logger class to
spit out the timestamp for me. The utility is built-in by default and I
don’t want prepend each and every log statement with a timestamp using
the Time class.

Long story short, I my question really is, why doesn’t using Logger give
me the timestamp I need in my log messages?

Thanks,
Harnish

#4

Harnish B. wrote:

How, do I get to display something like:

I, [2008-03-18T17:09:29.216000 #2020] DEBUG – : Testing

Your code outputs in that format for me, on ruby-1.8.6. Does it make a
difference if you remove the line

logger.datetime_format = “%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”

?

That will get you back to the default, which displays microseconds, as
you wanted anyway.