Today, during a major debugging session with a Rails application, I wanted to condense what was in the logs between two consecutive requests to understand what was happening. It was too much to read through everything. I just needed to scan through all these requests and flag whether they were successful or not.

So today, rather than scribbling down another Ruby script, which would have been easy, I started a log analyser using Rust. It’s early days for the script, but it already compiles a list of endpoints, which is a good start.

It’s a reminder to myself that there are plenty of development tools and aids I can build using a variety of languages and frameworks. And if I only use that tool a few times, that’s okay, too. At least I will have learned something.