Question

My production log 1GB, i need to setup logrotate automatically when the size reaches 1GB.
I am using rails 3, ruby 1.9.3.
How to rotate the log in rails?
Can any one help me out? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To create a logger which ages logfile once it reaches about 102,400,000 bytes and leave 10 old log files:

require 'logger'
logger = Logger.new('foo.log', 10, 102_400_000) #10 logs, about 1 GB all together