Question

I currently have a controller were I would like to keep track of logging in a separate log file, like: tracker.log. I currently get about 100,000 hits a day with this, and I would like to separate the log from all the other controllers so I can easily debug those as well as the tracker.

I couldn’t find anything for the Rails::Initializer, that would extend specifically for a controller.

I know it will be something along the lines of:

 config.log_path = 'log/tracker.log' 

Although you can’t re-run the Rails initializer mid load, right?

Answer 1

You just need to create your own instance of the Logger class (which is used by Rails to generate log files) and pass it a File instance as an argument.