Rails - Jan 2006 - logger in my classes

Hi,

I wrote a class which is not an AR extension, nor a controller.
I''d like to use logger.* methods there too.

My class is in lib/ dir. I include it in environment.rb with the line
require ''lib/localization''

just after the line
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ''boot'')

I tried many ways to reuse the logger class. The cleaner way seemed to
be based on Object::RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER that is defined in

/railties/lib/initializer.rb:
  silence_warnings { Object.const_set "RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER", logger }

But all I get is an uninitialized constant :(

Please tell me the right way to reuse logger.

-- 
Jean-Christophe Michel

Hi, Jean-Christophe,

never been in your situation but I''ve made a short test anyway

require ''logger''
   
class TestIt

  attr_reader :logger
  attr_writer :logger
 
  def initialize
    @logger = RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER
  end
 
  def log_it(message)
    @logger.info(message)
  end
end

seems to work:

F:\home\jan\workspace\blauton>ruby script/console
Loading development environment.
 >> test = TestIt.new
=> #<TestIt:0x34d2b18 @logger=#<Logger:0x35ba358 @level=0, 
@datetime_format=nil,
 @progname=nil, @logdev=#<Logger::LogDevice:0x35ba310 
@shift_size=1048576, @shif
t_age=0, 
@filename="./script/../config/../config/../log/development.log",
@dev=#
<File:./script/../config/../config/../log/development.log>>>>
 >> test.log_it(''Hello Jean-Christophe'')
=> true
 >> exit

Best Regards
Jan

Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I wrote a class which is not an AR extension, nor a controller.
>I''d like to use logger.* methods there too.
>
>My class is in lib/ dir. I include it in environment.rb with the line
>require ''lib/localization''
>
>just after the line
>require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ''boot'')
>
>I tried many ways to reuse the logger class. The cleaner way seemed to
>be based on Object::RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER that is defined in
>
>/railties/lib/initializer.rb:
>  silence_warnings { Object.const_set "RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER",
logger }
>
>But all I get is an uninitialized constant :(
>
>Please tell me the right way to reuse logger.
>
>