LoggingByBean

I've grown tired of looking through Rails logs and wanted something more readable. I found a nice treatment of this at https://cbpowell.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/beautiful-logging-for-ruby-on-rails-4/, but I wanted something that was truly fire-and-forget. This gem handles the installation of an initializer and modification of the application.rb file to use nicer logging.

NOTE: This is my first gem, and I'm doing this as much to learn how to generate gems as anything else. Apologies if it's clunky.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'logging_by_bean'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install logging_by_bean

Then run the installer:

$ rails generator logging_by_bean:install

Once you've rebundled with the gem and run the installation, you're good to go. The gem consists of two side effects: it creates a logging_by_bean.rb initializer file and it modifies your application.rb to switch out the default Rails logger.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/logging_by_bean/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