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module ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging

Active Support Tagged Logging

Wraps any standard Logger object to provide tagging capabilities.

May be called with a block:

logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(Logger.new(STDOUT))
logger.tagged('BCX') { logger.info 'Stuff' }                                  # Logs "[BCX] Stuff"
logger.tagged('BCX', "Jason") { |tagged_logger| tagged_logger.info 'Stuff' }  # Logs "[BCX] [Jason] Stuff"
logger.tagged('BCX') { logger.tagged('Jason') { logger.info 'Stuff' } }       # Logs "[BCX] [Jason] Stuff"

If called without a block, a new logger will be returned with applied tags:

logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(Logger.new(STDOUT))
logger.tagged("BCX").info "Stuff"                 # Logs "[BCX] Stuff"
logger.tagged("BCX", "Jason").info "Stuff"        # Logs "[BCX] [Jason] Stuff"
logger.tagged("BCX").tagged("Jason").info "Stuff" # Logs "[BCX] [Jason] Stuff"

This is used by the default Rails.logger as configured by Railties to make it easy to stamp log lines with subdomains, request ids, and anything else to aid debugging of multi-user production applications.

Public class methods

Source code GitHub
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb, line 117
def self.new(logger)
  logger = logger.clone

  if logger.formatter
    logger.formatter = logger.formatter.clone

    # Workaround for https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20250
    # Can be removed when Ruby 3.4 is the least supported version.
    logger.formatter.object_id if logger.formatter.is_a?(Proc)
  else
    # Ensure we set a default formatter so we aren't extending nil!
    logger.formatter = ActiveSupport::Logger::SimpleFormatter.new
  end

  logger.formatter.extend Formatter
  logger.extend(self)
end

Public instance methods

Source code GitHub
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb, line 148
def flush
  clear_tags!
  super if defined?(super)
end
Source code GitHub
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb, line 137
def tagged(*tags)
  if block_given?
    formatter.tagged(*tags) { yield self }
  else
    logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(self)
    logger.formatter.extend LocalTagStorage
    logger.push_tags(*formatter.current_tags, *tags)
    logger
  end
end

Definition files