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Since I announced rails-log-analyzer some weeks ago, quite a lot has happened! Apparently there is some interest in such a tool: on this blog we get a lot of traffic looking for more info, the github project already has 22 watchers and it even has been forked!

In the mean time, Bart and I worked hard to add new functionality and refactored the internal design. As a result, I have released request-log-analyzer 0.1.0 today!

Changes: 

• The project is renamed to request-log-analyzer, because we plan to support log files from other frameworks as well; Merb is planned to be supported in the near future.
• The tool is distributed as a gem, making it much easier to install and update.
• More reports, colorized output, parsing progress bars, command line arguments, etc…
• Added a tool to create a SQLite database with all the parsed info from the log file, so you can do your own analysis.

Installation:

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install wvanbergen-request-log-analyzer

Usage:

request-log-analyzer  [LOG FILES*]
request-log-analyzer -c 20 -z log/production.log

Please let me know what you think! If you have any problems using the tool, do not hesitate to contact me!

My friend Bart from movesonrails.com just blogged about Rails log analyzer, a command line tool to get performance statistics for your Rails application by parsing its log file.

What started as an exercise for me to write a command line ruby program, has been extended and improved by Bart to be actually useful! We decided to release it under an MIT license. You can found the source on github. The project’s wiki contains usage information and an example of the output it will produce.