Building a database logger

bart.tenbrinke@movesonrails.com (Bart ten Brinke) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:26:00 +0200

Sometimes you don't want to log to a file, but to your database. A quick and somewhat dirty way for this:

 script/generate scaffold_resource LogEntry severity:string, \
  time_stamp:datetime, progname:string, msg:string

With the following logger:

class MovesLogger < Logger

  def format_message(severity, timestamp, progname, msg)
    logEntry = LogEntry.new({:severity  =>  severity,
                           :timestamp  =>  timestamp,
                           :progname   =>  progname, 
                           :msg        =>  msg})
    logEntry.save
    return nil
  end  
end

Now you can use logger = MovesLogger.new($stdout) and everything will be neatly logged to the database!

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Building a database logger