debugging activeresource

Add ActiveResource::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDERR) to your config/application.rb ( Rails 3.x ).

You'll get output like :

POST http://localhost:3000/freebase.json
--> 201 Created 0 (15.8ms)

That shows method and response code ...

ActiveResource isn't dead, but relative to ActiveRecord I can understand why you'd think so, it is definitely an unloved and underprivileged stepchild.

You'd probably be better off using something like Faraday_Middleware or HTTPParty. The former is my personal preference. Unless what you're doing is pulling from another Rails app or one that has perfect restful behaviour like Rails (which Freebase doesn't), ActiveResource is usually more trouble than it's worth.

That being said, you can accomplish what you want without overwriting any class methods by doing:

  self.site = "https://www.googleapis.com/"
  self.format = :json

  def self.search(word)
    self.find(:all, :from => "/freebase/v1/search/", :params => { :query => word })
  end

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