Capturing logger output inside a method

Question

New to Ruby I have a simple driver script right now that runs multiple test scripts in other ruby files. I have a method called RunScript() that runs the test scripts. The log

Answer 1

I've done this in several different ways, and the most convenient I've found is to build a delegation object that routes messages to two or more loggers:

require 'stringio'
require 'logger'

class LoggerTee

  def initialize *loggers
    @loggers = loggers
  end

  def method_missing meth, *args, &block
    @loggers.each { |logger| logger.send(meth, *args, &block) }
  end

end

capture_stringio = StringIO.new
console_log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
string_log = Logger.new(capture_stringio)
log = LoggerTee.new(console_log, string_log)

log.debug 'Hello world'
puts capture_stringio.string

Output:

D, [2013-04-30T18:59:18.026285 #14533] DEBUG -- : Hello world
D, [2013-04-30T18:59:18.026344 #14533] DEBUG -- : Hello world

In this example, the LoggerTee class is instantiated with two separate loggers, one that goes to the console, the other to a StringIO instance. The resulting LoggerTee instance is a drop-in replacement for any standard logger object.