Understanding the Rails Logger
I've lost track of why now, but I've spent a bit of time this afternoon trying to understand how the Rails logger works in production. For years we've been using a Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger, which is dead straightforward. Recently, though, we switched back to using the built in logger with Rails, which is a little more subtle. The default logger in Rails is the BufferedLogger from ActiveSupport. It can… Continue reading
On the road
Hello and welcome to the all-new FreeAgent engineering team blog! A lot of work goes on behind the curtain at FreeAgent and we’ve kept rather quiet about this ever since we launched the first iteration of our app (18th September 2007, if you were wondering). This isn’t because we’re unwilling to reveal our secret special sauce (still classified, sorry), more because there has always been such an ever-growing mountain of… Continue reading