Is there a unified logging system for Ruby?

Question

I was wondering if there are any truly unified logging systems out there that can support Rails and delayed jobs, and are relatively easy to set up.

I want to be able to log to the same server/file for any execution context in my application (Rails, delayed jobs, etc), even if i'm not currently in a Rails context.

Love the Rails logger, but I can't log to it while in a Resque job. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Do you mean a file-logger, similar to syslog?

Ruby's got both Logger and Syslog.

Logger can do log rolling, handles severity levels, and is used in a lot of Ruby modules for logging. You can define the name of the file to log to, or use STDOUT/STDERR or an IO stream.

The docs for syslog are pretty barebones, but you can get info by browsing its source code, or reading the Ruby Syslog README.