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

You could create a new rake task to get this to work.

desc "switch logger to stdout"
task :to_stdout => [:environment] do
 Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
end

This way when you execute your rake task you can add to_stdout first to get stdout log messages or don't include it to have messages sent to the default log file

rake to_stdout some_task