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

Currently the log_level is not handled correctly. The fix is on Github, which is a 2.x release.

You can wait for the next gem release. And if you don't and is not afraid of risk, you can use the following in the Gemfile:

# use selectively
gem 'sunspot_rails', :git => "git://github.com/sunspot/sunspot.git", :require =>  "sunspot_rails"
gem 'sunspot_solr', :git => "git://github.com/sunspot/sunspot.git", :require => "sunspot_solr"

I use Linux logrotate:

/home/path/log/*.log {
  su username pwd
  daily
  missingok
  rotate 7
  delaycompress
  notifempty
  copytruncate
}