How can I access the Rails logger from an initializer?

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Following the advice from my previous question, I placed my background process in an initializer named scheduler.rb. However, I'm having a hard time getting the newly-scheduled processes to log to the Rails logs. Is there a simple way for me to access the same logs from the initializer, preferably by accessing Rails' default logger methods (logger.info, etc)?

score 28 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '12 at 12:22

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Rails 3-
Simply use Rails.logger in your initializer

Rails.logger.info "blabla"

HTH

answered May 12 '12 at 12:22

Hertzel Guinness

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Just a quick note about something obvious that I missed for quite a long time. To make this work, you do need to "require 'logger'" – Anne Gunn Jul 22 '14 at 18:27
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Works with Rails 4 as well – fkoessler Apr 25 '16 at 12:56

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '11 at 16:50

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER was deprecated in Rails 3. The following steps work for me in Rails 3.1.

Set your logger in environment.rb before calling initialize! on your application:

Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
MyServer::Application.initialize!

Then call the logger in your initializer.

Rails.logger.info "Hello, world!"

St.Woland · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-22T22:58:50.637

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RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info "abc"

edited Jan 22 '10 at 22:58

answered Jan 22 '10 at 22:52

St.Woland

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How can I access the Rails logger from an initializer?

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