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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
index 6207de8094..7ccc333463 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
# name # => String, name of the event (such as 'render' from above)
# start # => Time, when the instrumented block started execution
# finish # => Time, when the instrumented block ended execution
- # id # => String, unique ID for this notification
+ # id # => String, unique ID for the instrumenter that fired the event
# payload # => Hash, the payload
# end
#
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
# event.payload # => { extra: :information }
#
# The block in the <tt>subscribe</tt> call gets the name of the event, start
- # timestamp, end timestamp, a string with a unique identifier for that event
+ # timestamp, end timestamp, a string with a unique identifier for that event's instrumenter
# (something like "535801666f04d0298cd6"), and a hash with the payload, in
# that order.
#
@@ -67,9 +67,12 @@ module ActiveSupport
# have a key <tt>:exception</tt> with an array of two elements as value: a string with
# the name of the exception class, and the exception message.
# The <tt>:exception_object</tt> key of the payload will have the exception
- # itself as the value.
+ # itself as the value:
#
- # As the previous example depicts, the class <tt>ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event</tt>
+ # event.payload[:exception] # => ["ArgumentError", "Invalid value"]
+ # event.payload[:exception_object] # => #<ArgumentError: Invalid value>
+ #
+ # As the earlier example depicts, the class <tt>ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event</tt>
# is able to take the arguments as they come and provide an object-oriented
# interface to that data.
#
@@ -171,6 +174,31 @@ module ActiveSupport
end
end
+ # Subscribe to a given event name with the passed +block+.
+ #
+ # You can subscribe to events by passing a String to match exact event
+ # names, or by passing a Regexp to match all events that match a pattern.
+ #
+ # ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/render/) do |*args|
+ # @event = ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event.new(*args)
+ # end
+ #
+ # The +block+ will receive five parameters with information about the event:
+ #
+ # ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe('render') do |name, start, finish, id, payload|
+ # name # => String, name of the event (such as 'render' from above)
+ # start # => Time, when the instrumented block started execution
+ # finish # => Time, when the instrumented block ended execution
+ # id # => String, unique ID for the instrumenter that fired the event
+ # payload # => Hash, the payload
+ # end
+ #
+ # If the block passed to the method only takes one parameter,
+ # it will yield an event object to the block:
+ #
+ # ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/render/) do |event|
+ # @event = event
+ # end
def subscribe(*args, &block)
notifier.subscribe(*args, &block)
end