How to rotate, override, or turn off logging from Sunspot Solr Rubygem?

Question

I\'ve had great experiences with Sunspot Solr search for Ruby on Rails, however, its log files are growing incredibly large and I can\'t seem to find a way to either rot

Answer 1

You're looking for the Solr logging.properties file to customize the Java container's logging behavior. Sunspot uses Jetty for its embedded Solr instance. The Solr wiki provides instructions for customizing logging.properties in Jetty at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LoggingInDefaultJettySetup.

You may need to review the source code for Sunspot's rake tasks to determine the best place to inject your own logging.properties. I imagine this would be an interesting question to raise on the Sunspot mailing list for a potential patch to Sunspot.