Question

My Rake tasks log to development just fine but when I go to run my app via Passenger nothing shows up in the log.

To answer a few common questions for people when this comes up:

I chmod 777 the log directory so access should not be an issue

My Passenger config is set to Development… at least I hope so

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [e-mail]

        ServerName blah.blah.blah
        DocumentRoot /var/www/qadashboard/public
        <Directory /var/www/qadashboard/public>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
        RailsEnv development
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

        RailsBaseURI /crbagenda
        <Directory /var/www/crbagenda>
                Options -MultiViews
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Here is my Gemfile

gem 'mysql'  
gem 'rack-flash' 
gem 'rest-client' 
gem 'builder' 
gem 'chronic', "0.6.4" 
gem 'crack' 
gem 'nokogiri' 
gem 'jira4r' 
gem 'prawn' 
gem 'prawnto' #gem install may need to edit the date in rack-cache 1.0.3 gemspec 
gem 'websnap' 
gem 'whenever' #For cron jobs for the rake tasks 
gem 'execjs' 
gem 'therubyracer'  
gem 'jquery-rails'

gem 'json'

group :development, :test do   
     gem 'rspec-rails'   
     gem 'rspec'   
     gem 'ruby-breakpoint'   
     gem 'ruby-debug' 
end    

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails', "  ~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'uglifier'
end

What else can I add?

Answer 1

So… I rm -rf the log directory and then mkdir log… now it works. Probably would have been a lot easier if I had been using Capistrano on this and not just copied the folder structure over. Been on Windows too long. Sigh.