Introducing the lognotify gem

In an effort to pay more attention to log files I wrote the lognotify gem to make it convenient to monitor a log file's recent entries.

require 'lognotify'


ln = LogNotify.new('/tmp/mail.info')

def ln.on_update(entry)

  puts 'entry: ' + entry.inspect

  if entry =~ /citserver\[1988\]: Context: <james> logged in/ then
    puts 'James logged into the mail server'
  end
  
end

ln.start

In the above example the lognotify gem monitors the updates to the file /tmp/mail.info and prints out the most recent log entry. It checks if James has logged into the mail server and if he has it prints out the following message:

James logged into the mail server

Show below is the code used to create a sample log file while lognotify was running:

require 'logger'

log = Logger.new '/tmp/mail.info'
log.info 'testing'
sleep 2
log.info 'box1 citserver[1988]: Context: <james> logged in'
sleep 1
log.info 'new mail arrived'
log.close

Output:

entry: "I, [2015-10-04T10:26:38.444514 #5675]  INFO -- : testing\n"
entry: "I, [2015-10-04T10:26:40.446443 #5675]  INFO -- : box1 citserver[1988]: Context:  logged in\n"
James logged into the mail server
entry: "I, [2015-10-04T10:26:41.447813 #5675]  INFO -- : new mail arrived\n"

• lognotify https://rubygems.org/gems/lognotify

lognotify gem log monitor