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Clojure Web Development Essentials

You're reading from   Clojure Web Development Essentials Develop your own web application with the effective use of the Clojure programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392222
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Luminus 2. Ring and the Ring Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Logging 4. URL Routing and Template Rendering 5. Handling Form Input 6. Testing in Clojure 7. Getting Started with the Database 8. Reading Data from the Database 9. Database Transactions 10. Sessions and Cookies 11. Environment Configuration and Deployment A. Using Korma – a Clojure DSL for SQL Index

Adding an appender

Luminus generates our application to use the rotor appender. I prefer using a rolling appender instead of a rotor appender. A rolling appender is a file appender, like the rotor appender, however, it doesn't create a new log file when a predetermined maximum size is hit. Instead, a new log file is created either daily, weekly, or monthly. I find rolling appenders more useful in production environments because they help when diagnosing problems that have happened sometime in the past (you have a better idea which log files to check).

In this section, we're going to configure a rolling appender for our hipstr application.

Adding the rolling appender

We can put our rolling logs in their own directory, called logs. Unfortunately, Timbre doesn't create directories for us, so we'll have to create the directory first. From the terminal, add a logs directory in the hipstr source root:

# mkdir logs

Next, in our hipstr.handler namespace, we'll want to refer...

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