Re: gem fails to build on Win 7 32 bit, DevKit 3.7.2 (rubyinstaller.org)

[Ben Armstrong <BArmstrong@dymaxion.ca>]

On 26/07/16 06:35 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> However, after my successful build of the patched gem, when I re-enabled
> clogger in my rails 3 app in config/application.rb like this, it
> resulted in an empty log/access.log:
>
>      config.middleware.use 'Clogger',
>        :format => Clogger::Format::Combined,
>        :logger => File.open("log/access.log", "ab")
>
> Odd, as this worked fine for me once upon a time when the application
> ran on Ruby 1.8.7. (It was only when we made the switch to Ruby 1.8.7 ->
> 2.2.4 that clogger broke and we temporarily disabled this feature.)

This made me suspect that Rails was no longer passing this logger to 
WEBrick to use as an access log, and that had nothing at all to do with 
clogger. Sure enough, when I initialized the HTTPServer instance with 
:AccessLog => 
[[File.open('log/access.log','ab'),WEBrick::AccessLog::COMBINED_LOG_FORMAT]], 
I got exactly what I wanted, without having clogger involved at all.

So, thanks for your time looking at my issue, but I think I'll go with 
this solution, as it reduces my application's dependencies by one. If I 
ever need a logger with more flexibility, I'll keep clogger in mind, but 
it appears I don't need it.

Ben