Question

I have some Ruby code that I am testing stand alone before integrating into a Rails app. Because the final app. is in Rails I have numerous calls to Rails.logging.xxx that I want in there, but with these I can’t run the stand alone app because it doesn’t know about Rails.logging. How can I set it up so I can have these logging calls both in my CLI test app. and work in the final Rails deployment?

TY,
Fred

Answer 1

Why not just create a simple stub logger that is only available in the CLI version? For example:

class Rails
  def self.logger
     @logger ||= Logger.new('cli_logger.log')
  end
end

Rails.logger.info("Spam")

Or perhaps more Rails-like:

class Rails
  cattr_accessor :logger
end

Rails.logger = Logger.new('cli_logger.log')
Rails.logger.info("It works")