how to change the rails logger to use standard out from rake tasks (rails2)

Question

When I do

Rails.logger.debug \"hello world\" from within my rake tasks I want it to log to standard out.

How do I set the rails logger to Logger.new(STDOUT) fro

Answer 1

I just did Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) and that also worked (rails3)

Answer 2

With rails 4 you will be using the gem rails_12factor. Place this into your Gemfile and voilà! gem 'rails_12factor_'

Answer 3

You can reset the default logger this way:

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER = Logger.new(STDOUT)

You can also set the logger for specific parts of your application (ActiveRecord, ActionController...) like this:

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)