Rails 3.2.2 log files unordered, requests intertwined

Question

I recollect getting log files that were nicely ordered, so that you could follow one request, then the next, and so on.

Now, the log files are, as my 4 year old says \"a

Answer 1

If you value production log readability over everything else you can use the

PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp 1

configuration. It might cause some scaling issues. Alternatively you could stuff something like this in application.rb:

process_log_filename = Rails.root + "log/#{Rails.env}-#{Process.pid}.log"
log_file = File.open(process_log_filename, 'a')
Rails.logger = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new(log_file)