Logging user and app-specific data with the request information

 

By default, logworm will record entries about the HTTP requests that your app receives in a web_log table.

It is also possible to add arbitrary, app-specific fields to those log entries, by calling log_with_request. For example, you can use it to record information about the user that requested the page, in in the same web_log table.

log_with_request :user_id => @user.id

You can call log_with_request several times within the processing of an incoming request; it will merge successive hashmaps into one. The resulting hashmap will in turn be merged with the set of information that goes onto web_log which means that you can (intentionally or not) overwrite the information that naturally goes in web_log.

log_with_request :user_id => @user.id, :user_name => @user.name
log_with_request :user_state => @user.state

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