From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T11:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: my logroll code, please critique

Derek Smith wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>   
>> Derek Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Will anyone share good sample code for logging?
>>>       
>> There's the logger.rb in the ruby standard library (or did someone
>> mention that already?). It handles rotation, log levels, but perhaps not
>> multiprocess safety.
>>     
>
> Here is my updated code, but how do I look at the documentation from the 
> CLI for logger, logging or any gem?  For example, if I want to look at 
> Perl docs I use perldoc -f "builtin function" or perldoc -q "F.A.Q."
> Finally, what about a central logging block for when at anytime 'raise 
> StandardError' is called, the script will log to one logfile.  Will 
> anyone suggest code or how to do this?
>
>   
More on finding documentation -

I can't help you if you're on a Winxxxx system, but on my Kubuntu Linux 
OS I can find useful documentation for the  "logger" standard library 
member (and others) by  issuing at my CLI -

which logger

I get a pile of locations on the filesys where "logger" appears. Many  
are irrelevant, but this one is not:

/usr/share/doc/ruby1.8-examples/examples/logger

There I find 3 ruby code files illustrating library use. Nice.

(I didn't know about this until I set out to find an answer to your 
question, so thanks to you for that.)

t.

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