Provides a zero configuration alternative to Catalyst::Log.

Instantly gives you coloured terminal output and timestamps on your development server.

Provides a trivial mechanism for routing log messages to a file (configurable via your application's config file).

You can use it something like this:

# in MyApp.pm

use Catalyst qw( Log::Log4perlSimple );

# in myapp.conf

# note that this configuration is entirely optional. The block below is
# indicating the default values for everything, so if they look okay to you,
# just omit the configuration entirely.

<Plugin Log::Log4perlSimple>

    # Set this to 0 or 1 to indicate if you would like Catalyst debugging output.
    catalyst_debug 0

    # Set this to 0 or 1 to indicate if you would like Catalyst statistics output.
    catalyst_stats 0

    # What is the lowest level of debugging information you would like output
    # by by Log4perl (trace, debug, info, or warn)
    log_level debug

    # Boolean to control if we want to log to screen
    screen 1

    # Optional control specifying a filename to write log data to (comment this
    # out to disable writing to a file)
    #file /path/to/somefile.log

</Plugin>