added development mode with verbose output to log

README.rdoc

@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ All you need to do on the server is:
 	#start her up!
 	ActiveSocketServer.new(4001)
 
+	#or optionally start in development mode...(verbose info to log)
+	ActiveSocketServer.new(4001,:development)
+
 Here is a blog post describing an authentication server (with source code zipped at bottom):  http://www.activesocket.org/2009/06/authentication-with-activesocket.html
 
 == Use Case

common/logger.rb

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 module ActiveSocket
     def log
-
-      @log ||= Logger.new(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../debug.log")
-
-      # Replace the above line with the following to use Rails logging:
-      # @log ||= Rails.logger
-
+      unless @log
+        @log = Logger.new(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../log.log")
+        @log.level = (ActiveSocket::ENV == :development) ? Logger::DEBUG : Logger::WARN
+      end
+      @log
     end
     module_function :log
 end

common/protocol.rb

@@ -28,18 +28,21 @@ def self.unpack(str)
       begin
         obj = Marshal::load(marshalled_response)
       rescue
-        ActiveSocket.log.debug "failure: could not Marshal::load: #{$!}"
+        ActiveSocket.log.error "failure: could not Marshal::load: #{$!}"
         obj = "failure: could not Marshal::load: #{$!}"
       end
+      ActiveSocket.log.debug("unpacked: #{obj.inspect}")
       return obj
     end
 
     # Pack: takes an object and package it up
     # object -> string via marshal -> array of chars -> array of hex values -> string of concat hexs
     def self.pack(obj)
       begin
+        ActiveSocket.log.debug("packing object #{obj.inspect}")
         str = Marshal::dump(obj)
       rescue
+        ActiveSocket.log.error("Failure: could not Marshal::dump")
         str = Marshal::dump("Failure: could not Marshal::dump")
       end
       m = []

server/server.rb

@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ class ActiveSocketServer
 
     include Processors
 
-    def initialize(port) 
+    def initialize(port, environment = :production) 
+      ActiveSocket.const_set("ENV", environment)
       @serverSocket = TCPServer.new(port) 
       @serverSocket.setsockopt( Socket::SOL_SOCKET, Socket::SO_REUSEADDR, 1 ) 
-      ActiveSocket.log.debug("ActiveSocket Server started on port #{port.to_s}")
-      puts "ActiveSocket Server started on port #{port.to_s}"
+      ActiveSocket.log.debug("ActiveSocket Server started on port #{port.to_s} in #{ActiveSocket::ENV} mode")
+      puts "ActiveSocket Server started on port #{port.to_s} in #{ActiveSocket::ENV} mode"
       while 1
         wait_for_client
       end
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ def help_client
 
     def wait_for_message
       if @session.eof?
-        ActiveSocket.log.debug("they left :(")
+        ActiveSocket.log.debug("client disconnected :(")
         @session.close
         return
       else