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

How about creating an application helper which detects which environment is running and does the right thing?

def output_debug(info)
   if RAILS_ENV == "development"
      puts info
   else
      logger.info info
   end
end

Then call output_debug instead of puts or logger.info