Color Logging Formatter

This shard adds a new module ColorLogging as well as a new short formatter ShortColorFormat to help add a bit of color to your otherwise excellent log lines.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     cr-color-logging:
       github: vici37/cr-color-logging
   

2. Run shards install

Usage

require "cr-color-logging"

# This will output all debug and above severity log lines to STDOUT, colored via the ShortColorFormat formatter.
# By default, no colors are set and must be defined.
Log.setup(:debug, Log::IOBackend.new(formatter: Log::ShortColorFormat))

# Define the color you want for which part of the log message. Colors
# are the same as the ones defined in the `colorize` module.
Log::ShortColorFormat.with_color("severity", :red)
Log::ShortColorFormat.with_color("timestamp", :blue)

# Outputting a log now is as simple as:
Log.for(MyClass).info { "my information message" }

The full list of parts that the ShortColorFormat supports are:

timestamp
message
severity
source
after_source
before_data
data
before_context
context
exception
progname
pid
string

The ShortColorFormat was defined using the same string as the standard ShortFormat here. A similar macro is also defined for the ColorLogging module to define custom formats as well:

ColorFormat.define_formatter MyFormat "#{timestamp(after: ":")} #{severity(before: "[", after: "]")} #{message}"

# All parts, with exception to `string`, support a before_ and after_ prefixed part to color those
# specific pieces. If omitted, they inherit from the base part.
MyFormat.with_color("before_severity", :yellow)
MyFormat.with_color("after_severity", :yellow)
MyFormat.with_color("severity", :red)

# It might also be good to skip specific part coloring if a log line is of a sufficient severity.
# This will color the entire line this color if the severity matches.
MyFormat.with_colored_sevirity(Log::Severity::Error, :red)

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/your-github-user/color-logging/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Troy Sornson - creator and maintainer