Rails - Mar 2008 - log_buddy released - your helpful dev and debug buddy

LogBuddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you
dev, debug, and test. It plays well with Rails and plain old Ruby
projects. To use it, sudo gem install log_buddy, then require
''log_buddy'' and call LogBuddy.init. It will add two methods to
object
instance and class level: "d" and "logger". You probably
only want to
use these in non-prod environments, so conditionally load it based on
your test env.

The "logger" method is just a typical logger - it will use the Rails
logger if its available.
The "d" method is a special helper that will output the code in the
block and its result - note that you *must* use the bracket block form
- do...end is not supported.

Examples
======
require ''lib/log_buddy''
LogBuddy.init
a = "foo"
@a = "my var"
@@bar = "class var!"
def bark
 "woof!"
end

module Foo;
  def self.module_method
    "hi!!"
  end
end

d { a }                   # logs "a = ''foo''"
d { @a }                # logs "@a = ''my var''"
d { @@bar }          # logs "@@bar = ''class var!''"
d { bark }               # logs "bark = woof!"
d { Foo::module_method }  # logs Foo::module_method = ''hi!!''

More
===Log bugs/issues/suggestions here:
http://opensource.thinkrelevance.com/wiki/log_buddy
Source: http://github.com/relevance/log_buddy/tree/master
git clone git://github.com/relevance/log_buddy.git
rdocs: http://thinkrelevance.rubyforge.org/log_buddy/

Thanks
=====Thanks to Dave Thomas and his latest testing code for the idea of
simple reading the file based on the call stack to easily output the
log line.
Thanks to Muness Alrubaie for pairing.

- Rob

http://robsanheim.com
http://thinkrelevance.com