How to log specific request details to rails server logs

Question

I typically don\'t like to ask directly how to do something without much understanding of what\'s going on, but I\'m fairly new to rails and I\'m having a hard time accomplishin

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but for future people that stumble upon this, I believe the preferred approach in Rails 3.2+ would be to use ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging. The blog post introducing this is here

And a quick example that adds the subdomain, a UUID per request, and the user agent to each log message. You can pop this in your environment initialization file.

config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid, lambda { |request| request.user_agent } ]