Question

I have a Rails application but after some time of development/debugging I realized that it would be very helpful to be able to see the whole HTTP request in the logfiles – log/development.log, not just the parameters.

I also want to have a separate logfile based on user, not session.

Any ideas will be appreciated!

Answer 1

You can rapidly see the request.env in a view via:

• VIEW: <%= request.env.inspect %>

If instead you want to log it in development log, from your controller:

• CONTROLLER: Rails.logger.info(request.env)

Here you can see a reference for the Request object.

Rails automatically sets up logging to a file in the log/ directory using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. The logfile will be named corresponding to your environment, e.g. log/development.log.

To log a message from either a controller or a model, access the Rails logger instance with the logger method:

class YourController < ActionController::Base
  def index
    logger.info request.env
  end
end

About the user, what are you using to authenticate It?