Using Cowsay in Rails
Using Cowsay in Rails
Why
In my recent rails projects, I've been printing log messages in our Rails controllers using the following pattern:
logger.debug "--------------------------------"
logger.debug "--------------------------------"
logger.debug params.inspect
logger.debug "--------------------------------"
logger.debug "--------------------------------"
which makes the messages easy to read in the rails log.
This became so common, one of my coworkers made a Sublime Text 3 snippet.
Enter Cowsay
Cowsay is a fun tool for generating ascii art.
If you want to use cowsay in your log messages just add it to your Rail's project gemfile
As of writing this article -
gem 'ruby_cowsay', '~> 0.1.1'
https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby_cowsay
Now you will be able to write log messages like this -
logger.debug Cow.new.think(params)
____________________________________
/ #<Score id: 1, patient_id: 1, \
| day_points: 650, week_points: 650, |
| total_points: 650, created_at: |
| "2014-08-08 19:42:31", updated_at: |
\ "2014-08-08 19:46:24"> /
------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
A little bit of fun!