From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-05-06T07:58:49+09:00
Subject: Re: my logroll code, please critique

On May 5, 2009, at 15:44, Derek Smith wrote:
> Tim Pease wrote:
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> 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
>
> I did look into this gem, but the documentation was weak and I tried  
> to
> work it, but could not and failed so I wrote my own since I am new to
> Ruby.  A good learning exp!....yucky Perl, ugly code is not for me!
>
> Will anyone share good sample code for logging?
> Thanks to all that replied, but Matt will you show me this loop you
> referred to?

I use SyslogLogger (which adapts Syslog to a Logger API) and newsyslog  
to rotate logs.