Make Rails logger available in code normally outside of logger scope
Here’s a quick one. Say you are debugging a bit of code in a plugin that doesn’t fall under the Rails app you are working on’s ActiveSupport context and thus “logger.debug” is not available to you.
You could write up your own logging mechanism, with or without using the Logger gem. However, if what you are working on is run by the Rails app and thus has the apps global constants available, you could simply tie it into the existing logger object in the Rails app like so in your file:
Then you can use logger.debug, logger.info, etc. to your heart’s content. One caveat, if you are working on a gem or a something more general that won’t necessarily always be run in the context of Rails, then you will want to pull your use of logger out before distributing your code. Otherwise you add a dependency on Rails that you may not intend.
