A cool tool called Chrome Logger has been around for awhile that allows, through a known specification, client side logging from the server. It seemed to have undergone a complete rewrite recently but only had PHP and Python implementations.

After some quick work last night, I was able to release an early version of a Ruby implementation. It's a Rack middleware packaged as a gem that exposes env['console'] from which you can create log messages.

It also comes with easy Rails integration: require 'chrome_logger/railtie'

You can check out an example, read the code, or just install it!

gem install chrome_logger

Ryan

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