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

Execute a background job with '&' and open script/console or whatever.. That way you can run multiple commands in the same window.

tail -f log/development.log &
script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.5)
>> Product.all
2011-03-10 11:56:00 18062 DEBUG  Product Load (6.0ms)  SELECT * FROM "products"
[,]

note Can get sloppy quickly when there is a lot of logging output.