# Mixlib::Log

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**Umbrella Project**: [Chef Foundation](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/projects/chef-foundation.md)

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Mixlib::Log provides a mixin for enabling a class based logger object, a-la Merb, Chef, and Nanite. To use it:

```ruby
require 'mixlib/log'

class Log
  extend Mixlib::Log
end
```

You can then do:

```ruby
Log.debug('foo')
Log.info('bar')
Log.warn('baz')
Log.error('baz')
Log.fatal('wewt')
```

By default, `Mixlib::Logger` logs to STDOUT. To alter this, you should call `Log.init`, passing any arguments to the standard Ruby Logger. For example:

```ruby
Log.init('/tmp/logfile')  # log to /tmp/logfile
Log.init('/tmp/logfile', 7)  # log to /tmp/logfile, rotate every day
```

Enjoy!

## Documentation

All documentation is written using YARD. You can generate a by running:

```
rake docs
```

## Contributing

For information on contributing to this project please see our [Contributing Documentation](https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## License & Copyright

- Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2008-2019 Chef Software, Inc.
- License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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