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As developers, we often deal with current controller's action, its main view page and the layout associated with it. Totrace and debug these logs information, we check the logs through our console.

However, by default, the logs are all in the same color, which makes it difficult to find the ones which we're workingon. To simplify our lives and speed up the debugging process, we want to assign different colors to these logs.This will make it much easier for us to spot the right information and save time when we're fixing issues and improvingour software.

To ease our development time, we can use this gem. It will colorize the logs for controller's action, view, layout,and etc.

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem"colorize_logs"

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install colorize_logs

Create an initializer fileconfig/initializers/colorize_logs.rb and add the following code:

# frozen_string_literal: truecolorize_logs_formatter=ColorizeLogs::Formatter.newcolorize_logs_formatter.configuredomatch(/Processing by/)do |msg|msg.redendmatch(/Rendering layout/)do |msg|msg.greenendmatch(/Rendering.*within layouts/)do |msg|msg.greenendend::Rails.logger.formatter=colorize_logs_formatter

That's it. Restart your server and you should see the logs in different colors.

This gem is inspired byShog gem. All the credits goes to the author of Shog gem.I had to create this one as original gem is not maintained anymore and I wanted minimal stuff from it.

After checking out the repo, runbin/setup to install dependencies. Then, runrake test to run the tests. You canalso runbin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, runbundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update theversion number inversion.rb, and then runbundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version,push git commits and the created tag, and push the.gem file torubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub athttps://github.com/mechanicles/colorize_logs. This project isintended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to thecode of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of theMIT License.