add all the colors of the rainbow, log into the same file

and throw in some formatting

lib/federation_logger.rb

@@ -1,15 +1,118 @@
 #custom_logger.rb
-class FederationLogger < Logger
-  def format_message(severity, timestamp, progname, msg)
-    "#{Rails.env}-#{timestamp}: #{msg}\n"
+
+class ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger
+  def formatter=(formatter)
+    @log.formatter = formatter
   end
 end
 
+class Formatter
+  COLORS = {
+    'FG' => {
+      'black'  => '30',
+      'red'    => '31',
+      'green'  => '32',
+      'yellow' => '33',
+      'blue'   => '34',
+      'violet' => '35',
+      'cyan'   => '36',
+      'white'  => '37',
+    },
+    'BG' => {
+      'black'  => '40',
+      'red'    => '41',
+      'green'  => '42',
+      'yellow' => '43',
+      'blue'   => '44',
+      'violet' => '45',
+      'cyan'   => '46',
+      'white'  => '47',
+    }
+  }
+
+  DULL   = '0'
+  BRIGHT = '1'
+  NULL   = '00'
+
+  ESC   = "\e"
+  RESET = "#{ESC}[00;0;00m"
+  # example: \033[40;0;37m white text on black background
+
+  SEVERITY_TO_TAG_MAP   = {'DEBUG'=>'meh',   'INFO'=>'fyi',   'WARN'=>'hmm',    'ERROR'=>'wtf', 'FATAL'=>'omg', 'UNKNOWN'=>'???'}
+  SEVERITY_TO_COLOR_MAP = {'DEBUG'=>'white', 'INFO'=>'green', 'WARN'=>'yellow', 'ERROR'=>'red', 'FATAL'=>'red', 'UNKNOWN'=>'white'}
+
+  def initialize
+    @colors_enabled = true
+  end
+
+  def random
+    @random ||= COLORS['FG'].keys[Random.rand(8)]
+  end
+
+  def colors?
+    @colors_enabled
+  end
+
+  def fg name
+    COLORS['FG'][name]
+  end
+
+  def bg name
+    COLORS['BG'][name]
+  end
+
+  def colorize(message, c_fg='white', c_bg='black', strong=0)
+    if colors?
+      "#{ESC}[#{fg(c_fg)};#{bg(c_bg)};#{strong==0 ? DULL : BRIGHT}m#{message}#{RESET}"
+    else
+      message
+    end
+  end
+
+  def call(severity, time, progname, msg)
+    fmt_prefix = pretty_prefix(severity, time)
+    fmt_msg    = pretty_message(msg)
+
+    "#{fmt_prefix} #{fmt_msg}\n"
+  end
+
+  def pretty_prefix(severity, time)
+    color = SEVERITY_TO_COLOR_MAP[severity]
+    fmt_severity = colorize(sprintf("%-3s","#{SEVERITY_TO_TAG_MAP[severity]}"), color, 'black', 1)
+    fmt_time     = colorize(time.strftime("%s.%L"))
+    fmt_env      = colorize(Rails.env, random, 'black', 1)
+
+    "#{fmt_env} - #{fmt_time} [#{fmt_severity}] (pid:#{$$})"
+  end
+
+  def pretty_message msg
+    w = 130
+    txt_w = (w - Rails.env.size - 3)
+
+    # get the prefix without colors, just for the length
+    @colors_enabled = false
+    prefix = pretty_prefix("DEBUG", Time.now).size + 1
+    @colors_enabled = true # restore value
+
+    if (msg.size <= (w-prefix))
+      msg
+    else
+      output = msg.strip.scan(/.{1,#{txt_w}}/).flatten.map { |line| sprintf("%#{w}s", sprintf("%-#{txt_w}s", line)) }.join("\n")
+      "\n#{output}"
+    end
+  end
+
+end
+
+class FederationLogger < ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger
+end
+
 if Rails.env.match(/integration/)
   puts "using federation logger"
-  logfile = File.open(Rails.root.join("log", "#{Rails.env}_federation.log"), 'a')  #create log file
+  logfile = File.open(Rails.root.join("log", "federation_logger.log"), 'a')  #create log file
   logfile.sync = true  #automatically flushes data to file
   FEDERATION_LOGGER = FederationLogger.new(logfile)  #constant accessible anywhere
+  FEDERATION_LOGGER.formatter = Formatter.new
 else
   FEDERATION_LOGGER = Rails.logger
-end
+end