Segment7 - category software

Tim Lucas on Logging Rails to SysLog with SyslogLogger

Eric Hodel | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:09:02 GMT

Tim on switching to SyslogLogger and Production Log Analyzer:

One of the benefits of switching your Rails app to use SysLog is taking advantage of your OS’s system-wide logging, as well as having finer grained control over how to process your log messages. For example, you can split the logs up based on Rails app, mongrel process, or even by app server if you’re using remote syslog.
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...and now we’re using SysLog we can use Eric’s other tool, ProductionLogAnalyzer, to identify performance bottleknecks of our application. Geoffrey Grosenbach (aka topfunky) wrote a Hodel3000CompliantLogger if you want to use this tool without SysLog).

— Logging Rails to SysLog with SyslogLogger via tech on toolmantim.com

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ar_mailer version 1.2.0 has been released!

Eric Hodel | Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:28:52 GMT

Even delivering email to the local machine may take too long when you have to send hundreds of messages. ar_mailer allows you to store messages into the database for later delivery by a separate process, ar_sendmail.

sudo gem install ar_mailer

Changes:

1.2.0

Bugs fixed
- Handle SMTPServerBusy by backing off @delay seconds then re-queueing
- Allow email delivery class to be set in ARMailer.
- ar_sendmail—mailq works with—table-name now.
Miscellaneous Updates
Added documentation to require ‘action_mailer/ar_mailer’ in instructions.
Moved to ZSS p4 repository
Supports TLS now. Requested by Dave Thomas. smtp_tls.rb from Kyle Maxwell & etc.

http://seattlerb.org/ar_mailer

Posted in Rails, Ruby, Software | 2 comments

production_log_analyzer version 1.5.0 has been released!

Eric Hodel | Wed, 16 May 2007 21:43:57 GMT

production_log_analyzer provides three tools to analyze log files created by SyslogLogger. pl_analyze for getting daily reports, action_grep for pulling log lines for a single action and action_errors to summarize errors with counts.

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/production_log_analyzer

sudo gem install production_log_analyzer

Changes:

1.5.0

Fixed empty log bug. Patch by Tim Lucas.
Fixed bug where sometimes lines would be logged before the Processing line. Patch by Geoff Grosenbach.

Posted in Rails, Ruby, Seattle.rb, Software | 3 comments

rails_analyzer_tools version 1.4.0 has been released!

Eric Hodel | Wed, 16 May 2007 21:41:45 GMT

Rails Analyzer Tools contains Bench, a simple web page benchmarker, Crawler, a tool for beating up on web sites, RailsStat, a tool for monitoring Rails web sites, and IOTail, a tail(1) method for Ruby IOs.

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/rails_analyzer_tools

sudo gem install rails_analyzer_tools

Changes:

1.4.0

Moved to seattlerb project.

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SyslogLogger 1.4.0 Released

Eric Hodel | Wed, 09 May 2007 03:44:01 GMT

SyslogLogger version 1.4.0 has been released!

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/SyslogLogger

SyslogLogger is a Logger replacement that logs to syslog. It is almost drop-in with a few caveats.

Changes:

1.4.0 / 2007-05-08

Split from rails_analyzer_tools.
Added eh methods for compatibility with Logger.
Added syslog-ng instructions. Patch by Tom Lianza.
Fixed require in documentation. Reported by Gianni Jacklone.

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memcache-client version 1.3.0 has been released!

Eric Hodel | Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:29:02 GMT

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/memcache-client

memcache-client is a pure-ruby client to Danga’s memcached.

Changes:

1.3.0

Apply patch #6507, add stats command. Submitted by Tyler Kovacs.
Apply patch #6509, parallel implementation of #get_multi. Submitted by Tyler Kovacs.
Validate keys. Disallow spaces in keys or keys that are too long.
Perform more validation of server responses. MemCache now reports errors if the socket was not in an expected state. (Please file bugs if you find some.)
Add #incr and #decr.
Add raw argument to #set and #get to retrieve #incr and #decr values.
Also put on MemCacheError when using Cache::get with block.
memcache.rb no longer sets $TESTING to a true value if it was previously defined. Bug #8213 by Matijs van Zuijlen.

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