puts vs logger in rails rake tasks

Question

In a rake task if I use puts command then I see the output on console. However I will not see that message in log file when app is deployed on production.

However if I s

Answer 1

Put this in application.rb, or in a rake task initialize code

if defined?(Rails) && (Rails.env == 'development')
  Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
end

This is Rails 3 code. Note that this will override logging to development.log. If you want both STDOUT and development.log you'll need a wrapper function.

If you'd like this behaviour only in the Rails console, place the same block of code in your ~/.irbrc.