HTTP Logging in rails?

Question

Does anyone know of a plugin / gem that will log any HTTP requests your rails app may be making when responding to a request? For example if you are using HTTParty to hit an API, how can you see what outbound requests are coming out of your rails app?

Answer 1

If you're doing development on your own machine, Charles Proxy is a good option.

In production, you'd probably be better off creating your own logger.debug() messages.

Answer 2

You have to tell the outbound HTTP client to use a proxy.

For HTTParty it's fairly simple (from the docs),

class Twitter
    include HTTParty
    http_proxy 'http://myProxy', 1080

If you're looking for a proxy to set up, personally I like Paros proxy (Java so cross platform and does SSL).