From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2009-04-19T02:43:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] logging (version 1.0.0)

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Logging version 1.0.0
>>    by Tim Pease
>>    http://logging.rubyforge.org/
>>
>> == DESCRIPTION
>>
>> Logging is a flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs based on the
>> design of Java's log4j library. It features a hierarchical logging system,
>> custom level names, multiple output destinations per log event, custom
>> formatting, and more.
>
> Hey Tim,
> How does logging compare to log4r?
>

Let's find out

'logging' <=> 'log4r'    #=> 1

Logging supports all the same features of log4r and some improvements
and nifty new things, too. The rolling log file appender in Logging is
safe to use from multiple processes; this is not the case with log4r's
rolling file outputter.

Logging supports parseable log formats -- messages can be output as
JSON or YAML formatted objects. This makes parsing your log files much
much easier.

Logging has a growl notification appender for those of you on Mac OS X.

Both support logger hierarchies.

Logging has a cleaner interface (in my opinion).

Check out the examples folder of the logging project to get a feel of
how to use it and what it is capable of.

http://github.com/TwP/logging/tree/master

Blessings,
TwP