From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T00:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: my logroll code, please critique

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
> Derek Smith wrote:
>>
>> My goal is to keep 10 files each at 100Mb. Please critique and suggest
>> any corrections I need to make.  Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>
> Derek, I'm interested in what your trying to do here, and in the comments
> it's elicited. Could you share you revised code, when it's ready (or
> backchannel it, if you wish). I could definitely USE this!
>

Take a look at the "logging" gem. The RollingFile appender will do
exactly this -- rolling files based on size or age. Moreover, it will
safely roll the files even if multiple processes are writing to the
same file.

rubyforge.org/projects/logging

Blessings,
TwP