YARL - Yet Another Ruby Logger

YARL is a ruby/logger extension that provides:

• Full ANSI 4-bit color support
• SPAM -- a severity level lower than DEBUG
• Clean, low-clutter formatting
• Common defaults, like writing to STDOUT

As an extension, logger is fully implemented.

Color Support

YARL supports 4-bit ANSI colors -- both text and background -- in the logger header.

Additionally, the following severity levels have message colors:

• FATAL has a background color -- defaults to red
• ERROR has a text color -- defaults to red
• SPAM has a text color -- defaults to bright black

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'yarl'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install yarl

Usage

Simple Example

require 'yarl'

logger = YARL.new "Simple Example", color: :green
logger.info "Hello, World!"

will produce

Complex Example

Please see examples/complex.rb for the source code.

This example will produce

Contributing

Feel free to make an issue, and I will do my best to respond quickly.

Or, fork it, edit it, and pull request.