# How to use RollingFileOutputter $: << "../lib" require 'log4r' include Log4r puts "this will take a while" # example of log file being split by time constraint 'maxtime' config = { "filename" => "logs/TestTime.log", "maxtime" => 10, "trunc" => true } timeLog = Logger.new 'WbExplorer' timeLog.outputters = RollingFileOutputter.new("WbExplorer", config) timeLog.level = DEBUG # log something once a second for 100 seconds 100.times { |t| timeLog.info "blah #{t}" sleep(1.0) } # example of log file being split by space constraint 'maxsize' config = { "filename" => "logs/TestSize.log", "maxsize" => 16000, "trunc" => true } sizeLog = Logger.new 'WbExplorer' sizeLog.outputters = RollingFileOutputter.new("WbExplorer", config) sizeLog.level = DEBUG # log a large number of times 100000.times { |t| sizeLog.info "blah #{t}" } puts "done! check the two sets of log files in logs/ (TestTime and TestSize)"