Redirect logger output for a specific controller in Rails 3

Question

We want to have a collection of controllers where we route logger output from all actions and downstream methods to a separate log file. This is a Rails 3 project. In Rails 2 we

Answer 1

Have you tried prepending an around_filter?

class MyController < ApplicationController
  prepend_around_filter :set_logger

  private

  def set_logger
    old_logger = Rails::logger
    Rails::logger = Logger.new(Rails.root.join('log', "reports_controller.log"), 10, 1000000) 
    yield
    Rails.logger = old_logger
  end
end