How do you log the URL ActiveResource uses? - ruby-on-rails

Question

Rails ActiveResource is awesome ... except for one thing: as far as I can tell, there is no way to see what URL it is using behind the scenes. For instance, let's say I have an ActiveResource called Issue, for a webservice at myIssues.com/issues.xml. If I do:
Issue.find(:all, :params => {:page => 2})
I would expect that ActiveResource would make a call to:
myIssues.com/issues.xml?page=2
... but I don't actually know that. For all I know, ActiveResource could have decided it doesn't like the word "page", so it's actually using:
myIssues.com/issues.xml?mod_page=2
This makes debugging difficult. Right now I've got a situation where, if I go to the URL I think ActiveResource is using, it works just fine. However, when I actually use ActiveResource, it doesn't work. Seeing the URL it's GETing would be immensely helpful in this, so ...
Does anyone know a way to log (or otherwise output; if there's some resource.url method that would work great too) the URL(s) that ActiveResource uses to do its thing?

Answer 1

If you add the following line to your environment.rb file, it will at least log the requests so you know that URLs ActiveResource is hitting:
ActiveResource::Base.logger = ActiveRecord::Base.logger
I'm still searching for a better solution that shows me the response and the data posted to update calls, but at least this is a step in the right direction. I'm really not sure why ActiveResource has a separate logger to start with, but that's another matter.

Answer 2

I just ran into this same exact issue, and came across this post as I was looking for answers. What I did find, that proved useful, is the collection_path method on ActiveResource::Base. So for example, let's say you have the following resource:
class UserPost < ActiveResource::Base
self.site = "http://someApp.com/user/:user_id"
self.element_name = "post"
If you go to the rails console, here are some examples of the output:
>> UserPost.collection_path
"/user//post"
>> UserPost.collection_path(:user_id => 5)
"/user/5/post
This should provide you with exactly what you need to determine how ActiveResource is translating your request into a URL.

Answer 3

To get detail login for ActiveResource have to patch the request method inside the gem(method.
place bellow files inside config/initializers you will get http method, path, request body, request hedaers
response body and header is already there if you need. doc
config/initializers/activeresource_patch.rb
module ActiveResource
class Connection
private
def request(method, path, *arguments)
result = ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("request.active_resource") do |payload|
payload[:method] = method
payload[:request_uri] = "#{site.scheme}://#{site.host}:#{site.port}#{path}"
payload[:request_path] = path
payload[:request_body] = arguments[0]
payload[:request_headers] = arguments[1]
payload[:result] = http.send(method, path, *arguments)
end
handle_response(result)
rescue Timeout::Error => e
raise TimeoutError.new(e.message)
rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError => e
raise SSLError.new(e.message)
end
end
end
config/initializers/activeresource_logger.rb
Rails.application.configure do
def activeresource_logger
#activeresource_logger ||= Logger.new("#{Rails.root}/log/activeresource_logger.log")
end
ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe('request.active_resource') do |name, start, finish, id, payload|
if Rails.env.development?
activeresource_logger.info("====================== #{start} : #{payload[:method].upcase} ======================")
activeresource_logger.info("PATH: #{payload[:request_path]}")
activeresource_logger.info("BODY: #{payload[:request_body]}")
activeresource_logger.info("HEADERS: #{payload[:request_headers]}")
# activeresource_logger.info("STATUS_CODE: #{payload[:result].code}")
# activeresource_logger.info("RESPONSE_BODY: #{payload[:result].body}")
end
end
end