Watir Logging

marekj (marekj) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:05:15 GMT

// setup logging infrastructure for Watir tests using ruby Logger class



#Logging infrastructure

require 'logger'

# hack ruby logger to format and output only the minimum needed for testing scripts

# Logger is configured to write 

class Logger

  # hack format of logger

  class Formatter

    #original: Format = "%s, [%s#%d] %5s -- %s: %s\n"

    #Change the name of constant to avoid redefining the super which raises exception and bugs us.

    Formato = "[%s] [%5s] : %s\n" 

    

    #keep the original signature but alter implementation to change formatting

    def call(severity, time, progname, msg)

      #add logging to stdout

      puts output_message = msg2str(msg)

      STDOUT.flush

      #original: Format % [severity[0..0], format_datetime(time), $$, severity, progname, msg2str(msg)]

      Formato % [format_datetime(time),severity, output_message]

    end

  end

end



logfile = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','log', 'logger.log')

$log = Logger.new(logfile,'daily')

$log.level = Logger::DEBUG

$log.datetime_format = "%H:%M:%S"

$log.info("Watir Execution Starts")

$log.debug("Halllow Worled!")

$log.info("Achtung Achtung. The Train will leave from platform 9")

$log.warn("no no no no no. you can't do this")

$log.error("error error Danger Danger")

$log.fatal("game over game over game over")

# example of output

#[13:02:00] [DEBUG] : Watir Execution Starts

#[13:02:00] [DEBUG] : Halllow Worled!

#[13:02:00] [ INFO] : Achtung Achtung. The Train will leave from platform 9

#[13:02:00] [ WARN] : no no no no no. you can't do this

#[13:02:00] [ERROR] : error error Danger Danger

#[13:02:00] [FATAL] : game over game over game over

How to rotate your Rails logs by size, so you can allocate a certain amount of space for it.

procreate (Charles M. Gerungan) — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:34:35 GMT

Add this to RAILS_ROOT/config/environment.rb to keep 50 logfiles of 1MB each.



config.logger = Logger.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}.log", 50, 1048576)

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Watir Logging

How to rotate your Rails logs by size, so you can allocate a certain amount of space for it.